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Gene Defect May Provide Cancer Test
Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Sep 29, 1995 Many women have one or more risk factors for breast cancer. ... variation of the cancer gene was so common among Ashkenazi Jews and so rare among the ...
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STUDY PROBES GENE DEFECTS TIED TO BREAST CANCER
Pay-Per-View - Chicago Tribune - ProQuest Archiver - Mar 25, 1998 And in a new Washington state study, only 12 women had a defective BRCA1 gene among 193 who developed breast cancer before age 35. Only 15 women had the ...
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Women in Study More Susceptible to Lung Cancer
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 1, 1999 ``Lung cancer was a rare disease among women early in this century, ... Additionally, women found to carry a damaged K-ras gene might be suitable candidates ...
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Estrogen Gene Tied To Breast Cancer Risk
New York Times - Mar 26, 1997 The researchers found that among victims of breast cancer, women with the A2 gene were two and a half times more likely to have disease that had spread. ...
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Surgery May Halt Breast Cancer
CBS News - Sep 1, 1999 The BRCA1 gene mutation is thought to be a factor in a small percentage of both breast and ovarian cancer cases nationally, but among women with the ...
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Mastectomies can ease risks of breast cancer
Pay-Per-View - The Record - ProQuest Archiver - May 15, 1997 The study also found a 16 per cent risk of ovarian cancer among women and an equal chance of prostate cancer among men with the defective genes. ...
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