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Becca Breast Cancer Gene Test
- Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Ethnicity, Race, Genes, and Family History
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Risk Factors
About 12% of women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Each year in the United States, about 207,000 women are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and about 54,000 women are diagnosed with pre-invasive breast cancer. (Although breast cancer in men is rare, about 2,000 American men are diagnosed each year with invasive breast cancer.)
About 40,000 American women die from breast cancer each year. Breast cancer death rates have declined significantly since the...
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From Our Experts
BRCA1 and BRCA2: Testing for the Breast Cancer Gene?
A provocative essay in the New York Times by journalist Aliyah Baruchin has me thinking over, once again, a question that I occasionally... Read more »
Breast Cancer Research and the Manipulation of the BRCA1 gene
“A British woman has made history by conceiving the country’s first ‘designer baby’ guaranteed to be free from hereditary breast... Read more »
BRCA Gene: One Woman's Decision
Jessica Queller, a Los Angeles-based TV writer, has written a book (Pretty is What Changes), detailing her response to a discovery she made... Read more »
Breast Cancer News Alerts
Wash Post: The federal government has cancelled a $100 million study that was going to examine the new generation of drugs known as... Read more »
BRCA1: Startling New Findings Point to Need for Wider Testing
If you’ve had breast cancer, you’ve no doubt heard about BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing, often offered as an option to women with a strong... Read more »
From Our Sources
Gene Test May Predict Cancer Recurrence Risk
An experimental genetic test may be able to determine a patient's risk of breast cancer recurrence. U.S. researchers say the presence of two genes in... Read more »
Breast MRI and the New American Cancer Society Guidelines for ...
My technician recently told me, just before sending me gliding through an MRI tube, that MRI scans were once an uncommon breast exam. He performed... Read more »
Types of Breast Cancer: Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
Background Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a relatively rare type of breast cancer grows in the lymph vessels of the skin of the breast. Because... Read more »
Genes May Predict Recurrence Risk
Ten natural compounds found in pomegranates appears to reduce the risk of estrogen-fueled breast cancer, U.S. researchers say. The chemicals block... Read more »
Breast cancer genes linked to prostate cancer
Men who have a mutation on the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes--commonly called the "breast cancer genes"--may be more likely to develop aggressive forms of... Read more »
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