Two new papers, published simultaneously in Nature Communications and led by researchers at McGill University, offer promise that a drug currently used to treat estrogen positive breast cancer may be effective in treating two different types of cancer, one rare and one common form.

Classified as: biochemistry, genomics, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, William Foulkes, genetic markers, Sidong Huang
Published on: 4 Feb 2019

Screening for genes whose risk association with breast cancer has yet to be proven is not justified and potentially harmful, argue an international team of leading geneticists and oncologists in a paper published this week in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

Classified as: genetic testing, William Foulkes, cancer genes, genetic counselling, breast cancer susceptibility, cancer risk
Published on: 1 Jun 2015
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