Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD BRCA testing helps determine if you have a gene mutation that increases your cancer ...

An affordable new BRCA gene test has hit the market, but who should take it? — -- A new genetic testing kit that hits the market today is the most affordable, and arguably one of the simplest, ...

Maybe you've heard about genetic testing for diseases and wondered: What does that mean? Should I do it? What do the results mean? Here's what you need to know. For example, you may be familiar with ...

After a breast-cancer diagnosis and a separate scare, my mom tested for the BRCA2 gene mutation. Knowing it could be hereditary, I decided to get tested at 23 to see if I also carried the mutation. My ...

In late December of 2013, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) provided an update to its 2005 recommendations, reaffirming the genetic risk assessment and breast cancer susceptibility gene ...

More women may benefit from gene testing for hereditary breast or ovarian cancer, especially if they’ve already survived cancer once, according to new recommendations from experts in preventive ...

Not only do home genetic test kits, like 23andMe, provide information about your ancestry, but they can also give you some insights into your inherited health risks, particularly mutations on the BRCA ...

About 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. But the proportion who develop the common cancer as a result of a genetic mutation — namely to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes — is ...

Testing for BRCA mutations is an important step in developing the treatment plan for patients with breast cancer, says Leslie Randall. For patients with ovarian cancer, early identification of BRCA ...

ROANOKE, Va. – It’s estimated that more than 42,000 people will die from breast cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. To help you understand if you’re at a greater risk of ...

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 ...

Breast cancer awareness month marks a great time to brush up on your knowledge regarding the importance of BRCA gene testing. BRCA gene testing scans the body for mutations in both the BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...