BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
Mutated BRCA1 genes cause ovarian cancer indirectly, by interfering with the biochemical signals one ovarian cell sends to another, according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Their work is being published in the March 29 issue of the journal Current Biology.</p...Coffee Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers
An article appearing in the January 2006 issue of the International Journal of Cancer says that women with a BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts // them at high risk for breast cancer, could actually benefit by drinking large amounts of coffee. Dr. Steven A. Narod, of the University of Toronto, Ontario, and colleagues monitored the relationship of coffee consumption and the risk of breast...Scientists Unravel Link Between HRT And Breast Cancer Gene, BRCA1
It is a well established fact that any genetic alterations in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene can predispose to breast cancer. The BRCA1 gene, has been known to play a significant role// in the utilization of estrogen in cells present in the breast. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center have now found that the BRCA1 gene also controls the activity of another important sex...Hereditary Non-BRCA Breast Cancer Can Trigger New Cancers
A new study published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, says that the risk of a //new cancer occurring in the unaffected breast in unilateral breast cancer increases to a fair degree in women diagnosed with hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer. The study also says that the risk of developing the contra lateral breast cancer in w...