Weighing the benefits, and understanding more about BRCA gene testing is an important part of making informed decisions about your genetic health. As genetic testing becomes increasingly valuable for ...

Learning that hereditary cancer risk runs in your family can feel overwhelming. Understanding BRCA gene inheritance and making decisions about genetic testing involves navigating complex emotions and ...

Harmful variants in the BRCA1 gene greatly increase a person's lifetime risk of developing breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, but most people are unaware they are carriers. In a new study in the ...

Not only do home genetic test kits, like 23andMe, provide information about your ancestry, but they can also give you some insights into your inherited health risks, particularly mutations on the BRCA ...

Update: Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year year, BRCA gene testing has continued to be an issue in the courts. But a patent infringement case between Myriad Genetics (Nasdaq: MYGN) and ...

What is BRCA gene testing? Everyone has BRCA genes that produce tumor-suppressing proteins. But risky BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations leave a person more susceptible to cancers, including breast and ...

Harmful variants in the BRCA1 gene greatly increase a person's lifetime risk of developing breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, but most people are unaware they are carriers. "Many patients will ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Leading breast cancer experts are calling for women under 50 who are diagnosed with triple-negative (TN) breast cancer to be offered testing for faults in the BRCA1 gene, according ...

Eleven years after my mother died in 1994, when I was 31, I learned that a simple blood test could confirm whether I was a carrier of a BRCA gene mutation. Named for the first two letters of "breast" ...

Gila Pfeffer is a humor writer who splits her time between NYC and London. The following is an adapted excerpt from her memoir, "Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences." ...