New research shows that young breast cancer patients with high-risk genes may be able to prevent their cancer from returning ...

In recent years, her focus has shifted to oncology, where she has become a trusted voice in understanding genetic risks for ...

That is the figure quoted to all women with a BRCA gene mutation, but in fact their risk of cancer is much more complex than that, and different for every person. Prof Gareth Evans, who led the ...

Breast cancer patients aged 40 or younger with BRCA mutations had a 35% lower risk of death and 42% lower risk of cancer recurrence if they underwent a risk-reducing operation to remove their ...