News tagged with brca mutation

Study finds women with triple negative breast cancer and BRCA mutations have lower risk of recurrence

Patients with triple negative breast cancer that also have mutations in the BRCA gene appear to have a lower risk of recurrence, compared to those with the same disease without the deleterious genetic mutation, according ...

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created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery that PARP protein exists in all breast tumors will help target chemo and predict response

The presence of the protein poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in tumours can help predict their response to chemotherapy, a German scientist will tell the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC7) in Barcelona tomorrow ...

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created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients with high risk gene diagnosed six years earlier than generation before

Women with a deleterious gene mutation are diagnosed with breast cancer six years earlier than relatives of the previous generation who also had the disease and/or ovarian cancer, according to new research from The University ...

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