After a breast-cancer diagnosis and a separate scare, my mom tested for the BRCA2 gene mutation. Knowing it could be hereditary, I decided to get tested at 23 to see if I also carried the mutation. My ...

“Breast cancer was the furthest thing from my mind,” Jacob Johnson tells PEOPLE ...

It began on an unremarkable evening in April 2010. I was preparing dinner for my family when I got the call. The physician from the St. Louis Breast & Cancer Institute said, "Mrs. Keys, you have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Kaye My mum was so young when I lost her to breast cancer. She was only 35. I was eight and my sister Charlotte was nine.

OMAHA, Neb. (InvestigateTV) — A Nebraska nurse practitioner says a free genetic research study likely saved her life after she learned she carries a BRCA2 gene mutation, despite having little family ...

A genetic link to breast cancer impacts both men and women. It's the same genetic risk Angelina Jolie faced. What many don't consider is that men can also carry the gene too, and if they are positive, ...

Mathew Knowles gets candid about surviving breast cancer and living with the BRCA2 gene mutation. Mathew Knowles is honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month by opening up about his own experience as a ...

The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prevents health insurers and employers from discriminating against a person based on their genetic information, Rep. Dave Rogers told the ...