Since the NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme began in January 2023, around 11,000 saliva tests have been processed, with 235 people (2.1%) testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation, according to new ...

Mid and South Essex NHS Trust has expanded the use of genomics across Southend, Basildon and Broomfield hospitals.

The UK National Screening Committee (NSC) has advised against universal prostate cancer screening, saying routine testing is “likely to cause more harm than good.” However, it proposed targeted ...

The authors of new research led by the University of Exeter have warned that women who discover, outside of a clinical setting, that they carry a disease-causing variant in one of the BRCA genes ...

Mutations in the BRCA1 gene that are either inherited (germline) or acquired (somatic) might not be key to the initiation of prostate cancer, as previously thought, suggests the first study of its ...

Prostate cancer guidelines should change so that all men from the age of 40 with mutations in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are offered regular PSA testing to detect early signs of the disease, ...

In December 1995, a team of researchers published a paper identifying the second breast cancer susceptibility gene, better known as BRCA2. This discovery transformed the field of cancer research, ...

“Breast cancer was the furthest thing from my mind,” Jacob Johnson tells PEOPLE ...