Since the NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme began in January 2023, around 11,000 saliva tests have been processed, with 235 people (2.1%) testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation, according to new ...

The authors of new research led by the University of Exeter have warned that women who discover, outside of a clinical setting, that they carry a disease-causing variant in one of the BRCA genes ...

Mutations in the BRCA1 gene that are either inherited (germline) or acquired (somatic) might not be key to the initiation of prostate cancer, as previously thought, suggests the first study of its ...

Experts at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have responded to the draft recommendation from the National Screening Committee (NSC) to implement a targeted prostate cancer screening programme ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the use of olaparib (Lynparza) for BRCA-mutated early breast cancer and hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer ...

Data from Vista Health, a leading UK provider of private diagnostic services, has revealed the worrying knowledge gap when it comes to the prostate, as 26 percent of men do not know what their ...

In December 1995, a team of researchers published a paper identifying the second breast cancer susceptibility gene, better known as BRCA2. This discovery transformed the field of cancer research, ...

Share on Pinterest Some women may be getting unnecessary surgery after learning they are at risk for breast cancer from at-home genetic testing. Ljubaphoto/Getty Images New research finds that some ...