First UK baby screened for cancer due

The birth of the first baby in the UK to be screened free of a breast cancer inherited gene will be born soon. The treatment which sees a planned pregnancy approach with embryos containing the gene for breast...

BRCA1 mutation causes 85% risk of breast cancer

A new study may explain why women with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene face up to an 85 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer; researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that BRCA1 plays a role in regulating breast stem cells, the small...

Remedy for breast cancer raises ethics concern

Nancy Reagan never should have been born. Nor should have Carol Martineau Baldwin, mother of actor Alec Baldwin. That's the policy being advanced in Britain whereby embryos with a heightened risk of contracting breast cancer can be destroyed by their parents. "Tests will...

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