This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives. In ...

Cedars Sinai gets 30M to establish a specialized BRCA cancer center focusing on research, diagnosis, and treatment in Los Angeles.

However, many women with BRCA mutations perceive MHT as unsafe, due to concerns about their already elevated breast cancer ...

Kotsopoulos noted that BRCA carriers have a substantially increased lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Management of ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted regular approval to treatment with Rubraca (rucaparib) for the treatment of ...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are "tumor suppressor genes," meaning that, when normal, they make proteins that keep cells from growing abnormally, according to Cancer.org. "The way I explain it to patients is, they ...

SAN ANTONIO – Patients with germline BRCA mutations who were diagnosed with breast cancer at or before age 40 and who underwent a bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and/or a risk-reducing ...

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 ...

An affordable new BRCA gene test has hit the market, but who should take it? — -- A new genetic testing kit that hits the market today is the most affordable, and arguably one of the simplest, ...

Younger age at diagnosis did not appear to affect outcomes among women with breast cancer who harbor BRCA mutations, ...