Researchers have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of breast cancer -- cancer-like mutations appearing in the cells of healthy women. In a new study, the international collaborators ...

Australian scientists have pinpointed likely 'cells-of-origin', the source cells that can grow into breast cancer, in women carrying a faulty BRCA2 gene who are at high risk of developing the disease.

Genetic risk models and variant classification tools are refining breast cancer risk assessment by identifying high-risk ...

In a recent study published in Nature Genetics, researchers explored genetic alterations in breast epithelial cells that may contribute to cancer development. The study focused on somatic copy number ...

FORMS, AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF SOME GENE MUTATIONS LIKE BRCA1 OR BRCA2, BUT THERE’S ANOTHER ONE THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF, AND IT’S CHEK2. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR NEIL FRIEDMAN JOINS US NOW ...

Finding showed the inavolisib-based regimen reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 57% compared with palbociclib and fulvestrant alone. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...