More women choosing elective surgery to lower their cancer risk
Bartlesville Live
... Kingdom followed more than 200 women with BRCA mutations, which are hereditary genetic mutations that raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. ...

Are you at increased risk for cancer? Genetic testing is an option ...
WDBJ7.com
"I'm a BRCA1 carrier which puts you in a very high risk category for breast cancer and ovarian cancer," said Cohen. She also wondered if the gene had passed ...

World News
Why Women Choose Preventive Mastectomy
WebMD
In the new study, 211 women knew they had BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, putting them at very high risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. ...
Women Often Opt To Surgically Remove Their Breasts, Ovaries To ...Science Daily (press release)
Breast, ovary removals frequent for at-risk womenExaminer.com
Risk Reducing Surgeries For Breast, Ovarian Cancers Ris...Ozarks First
Medical News Today (press release) -Cape Cod Times -Cape Cod Times
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Women Often Opt To Surgically Remove Their Breasts, Ovaries To ...
Science Daily (press release)
These surgeries are widely used by carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations to reduce the risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Evaluated by gene type, ...
Breast, ovary removals frequent for at-risk womenExaminer.com
Common ovarian cancer susceptibility locus discoveredPHG Foundation
Ovarian CancerADVANCE for LPNs
Buffalo News -Vancouver Sun
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Breast-removal surgery that preserves a lot
Cape Cod Times
... after learning months earlier that her mother tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. ...

Common ovarian cancer susceptibility locus discovered
PHG Foundation
According to Cancer Research UK (CRUK), ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cancer in UK women, after breast, bowel and lung cancer, accounting for ...

Molecular genetics analysis of hereditary breast and ovarian ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Kaplan-Meier survival probabilities were computed for five-year survival data on Breast and Ovarian cancer cases separately, and differences were tested ...

Daily Women's Health Policy Report Summarizes Research In Breast ...
Medical News Today (press release)
Ovarian cancer: Two recently published studies have provided new insight into the early stages of ovarian cancer, potentially increasing the likelihood of ...

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Myriad Files Motion to Dismiss ACLU's 'Thinly Veiled' Anti-Gene ...
GenomeWeb Daily News
... of Myriad's patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, linked to increased hereditary risk for breast and ovarian cancer [see PGx Reporter 05-13-2009]. ...
Nobody should own access to your genesThe Age

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Ovary removal may increase risk for heart disease, lung cancer
Buffalo News
If you're at high risk for ovarian and breast cancer because of family history or a gene mutation, such as BRCA1 or BRCA2, the benefits of oophorectomy may ...

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Dallas Morning News
Genetic testing when the cancers are inherited
Dallas Morning News
Later, genetic testing convinced her to have a prophylactic hysterectomy, to prevent the ovarian cancer to which she's also predisposed. ...

Daily Mail
Toward Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer
Wall Street Journal
BNC2, as the gene is called, is far more common than the previously identified genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, and it doesn't raise the risk of ovarian cancer ...
Flawed gene link to ovary cancerBBC News
New gene mutation for ovarian cancer foundLos Angeles Times
DNA defect linked to ovarian cancerThe Press Association
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Fun fundraising to fight cancer
Newsday
Lynne Zeiter, 62, who was playing canasta, said she is a three-time cancer survivor and has been treated for breast and ovarian cancer. "I have the BRCA ...

Special report: Researchers tackle cancer's complex inequities
The Detroit News
Simon said each person has two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, but a woman can inherit breast or ovarian cancer if there is a mutation in one of those genes. ...

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Health Newstrack
To treat ovarian cancer more successfully, first we must find the ...
Los Angeles Times
... on ovarian and Fallopian tube tissue removed prophylactically from women with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that can increase the risk of ovarian cancer. ...
Ovarian Cancer Tests Flawed, in Need of New Design, Says Stanford ...Business Wire (press release)
Early Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Remains ElusiveMedPage Today

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Cancer-busting breakthrough
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Prof Bowtell said Canadian researchers had found 18 per cent of women with the most common type of invasive ovarian cancer had mutations of the BRCA genes. His study aims to test the Canadian results and, if confirmed, he believes this will change the ...

Program set on study of breast, ovarian cancers
New Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ
Approximately 5 percent to 10 percent of all breast and ovarian cancers are hereditary. Some genes that may cause breast cancer include BRCA1, BRCA2, p53, and PTEN. Not everyone who carries a genetic mutation that causes breast or ovarian cancer will ...