Breast radiotherapy linked to increased heart disease risk
10/29/2013
Patients in the early stages of breast cancer who undergo radiation treatments on the left side of their body in a facing-up position are at higher risk of developing heart disease. This is according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine...
Since 1994, many thousands of women with breast cancer from families severely affected with the disease have been tested for inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. The vast majority of those patients were told that their gene sequences were normal...
Early onset breast cancer associated with mutations in novel tumor suppressor gene
10/29/2013
An international team of scientists has identified an association between heritable, rare mutations in the RINT1 gene and increased risk of early onset breast cancer, according to research reported at the American Society of Human Genetics 2013 annual meeting in Boston...
An American Thoracic Society panel of experts is calling for better care for thousands of Americans who suffer severe shortness of breath as a result of advanced lung and heart disease. These episodes can be very frightening for patients and caregivers, and the increased anxiety often makes the symptoms worse...
Gene expression test clarifies thyroid biopsies
10/28/2013
Each year, tens of thousands of patients with thyroid nodules have surgery to remove all or part of their thyroids due to results that are indeterminate yet raise suspicions of thyroid cancer. Ultimately, most of these nodules prove benign...
News from the 2013 American Society of Human Genetics conference
10/28/2013
INVESTIGATING THE GENETIC MECHANISM BEHIND DELUSIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENICS SESSION 15 - Psychiatric Disease: GWAS to Genes Speaker: Mariela Zeledon, Predoctoral Training Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified changes in a person's DNA sequence that can affect what kinds of schizophrenia symp...
Research reveals 3-way genetic switch for cancer metastasis
10/28/2013
Cancer researchers from Rice University have deciphered the operating principles of a genetic switch that cancer cells use to decide when to metastasize and invade other parts of the body. The study found that the on-off switch's dynamics also allows a third choice that lies somewhere between "on" and "off...
An American Thoracic Society panel of experts is calling for better care for thousands of Americans who suffer severe shortness of breath as a result of advanced lung and heart disease. These episodes can be very frightening for patients and caregivers, and the increased anxiety often makes the symptoms worse...
Gene expression test clarifies thyroid biopsies
10/28/2013
Each year, tens of thousands of patients with thyroid nodules have surgery to remove all or part of their thyroids due to results that are indeterminate yet raise suspicions of thyroid cancer. Ultimately, most of these nodules prove benign...
Red and processed meat 'increases colorectal cancer risk'
10/28/2013
People with a common genetic variant who consume red or processed meat may increase their risk of colorectal cancer. This is according to a study presented at the annual American Society of Human Genetics 2013 meeting...