A clinician-led approach boosts genetic testing among relatives of people with newly detected pathogenic variants — and could help close a gap in hereditary cancer prevention.

As we age, our cells accumulate genetic changes—mutations—some of which open the door to cancer. Scientists call these ...

Exclusive: Pre-chemotherapy tests previously did not look for gene variant that put some ethnicities at higher risk of serious side effects ...

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The Yvonne Ashley Galiber Breast Cancer Foundation will host its first Breast & Prostate Cancer Conference on St. Croix on ...

UAB is leading a national study examining how personalized genetic risk information can improve prevention of chronic ...

PerturbFate can systematically map how diverse disease-associated genetic variations reshape cells to understand complex diseases, like cancer.

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

For Josh Henderson, 66, of Olympia, getting genetic testing was a no-brainer. “The first time I came to Fred Hutch, my oncologist suggested it,” said the retired IT manager who received a metastatic ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...