BRCA-Related Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer syndrome is a hereditary cancer syndrome caused by pathogenic variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. It results in increased risk for breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancers and possibly melanoma. Experts believe...
Partnership Will Offer Genetic Services to All Cancer Patients JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Jupiter Medical Center (JMC), a leading, not-for-profit medical center in Florida, today announced it will begin providing...
Tampa General Hospital will utilize My Gene Counsel’s digital genetic counseling tools that update, to scale genetic testing for patients with breast, ovary, prostate and pancreas cancer. TAMPA, Fla. (PRNewwire-PRWeb) Nov. 28, 2023 – Tampa General...
Pancreatic cancer is relatively uncommon, with a lifetime risk of ~1.5% for individuals in the United States. For the majority of pancreatic cancers, the cause is unknown and there is no known family history of the disease. In these circumstances, a cancer is...
Less than 3% of cancer in women is ovarian in nature, but ovarian cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common type of ovarian cancer, accounting for 85-90% of ovarian cancers....
