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

Yet women with one harmful BRCA1 mutation are far more likely to develop breast cancer -; a risk traditionally explained by a second mutation that arises later in life, damages the healthy copy of ...

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 ...

Risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) are both associated with significant improvements in outcomes ...