Medicine News | Medicine News and Information

Ovarian Cancer

09/05/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Vaccines are made with the same chemical found to increase breast cancer risk among women who have mutations of the BRCA genes

Where breast or ovarian cancer seems to “run” in a family, both male and female family members are encouraged to undergo testing to see whether they may have mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. These genes are responsible for suppressing tumor proteins, and when they have mutated (or altered), certain types of DNA damage […]

1 of 1