Relatively few U.S. women carry BRCA mutations
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A population-based study of  black and white American women with and without breast cancer  found that relatively few were carriers of mutations in BRCA1  or BRCA2 genes. Women who carry BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations  are more susceptible to developing breast and ovarian cancer.
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NEW YORK  - The innate capacity to repair  damaged DNA seems to affect a woman's chance of developing  breast cancer. Deficient DNA repair appears to triple the risk  of breast cancer, researchers have found.
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Some women claim they don&#39;t have time to get a mammogram. Others believe that with no history of breast cancer in their families, they don&#39;t need one.
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Breast cancer screening in the US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of little benefit to the majority of them, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer screening in the  US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of  little benefit to the majority of them, according to a new  study.
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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Four new studies released Thursday are shedding new light on the genetics of breast cancer, especially for one of the best-known breast cancer genes, BRCA1.
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Black American women are less likely than women of other races to have breast reconstruction after mastectomy, says a study published in the online edition of the journal Cancer.
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Women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation may find a MRI examination more accurate for detecting breast cancer than mammography, a Canada study found.
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Women with few older female relatives may be unaware they carry a genetic risk of breast cancer, US researchers reported in a study that casts doubt on current genetic testing guidelines.
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Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40. But as rote as those annual screenings might seem, there's nothing routine about a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more
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Top women executives do slightly  better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies  than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies  do not have a single female director, according to a new  survey.
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Women with a high genetic risk of breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography or other methods.
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Women who develop breast cancer because they carry one of three defective genes are no less likely to survive over the long term than other breast cancer patients, Canadian and Israeli researchers said on Wednesday.
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Scientists have identified a gene variation found in about 13 percent of women of European descent that reduces their risk of developing breast cancer, a study released on Sunday said.
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The little known and poorly understood syndrome seems to affect primarily women, researchers are reporting.
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New research indicates that few high-risk women are achieving the optimal cholesterol levels set forth in recent guidelines by the American Heart Association (AHA). Moreover, only about one third of eligible women are receiving cholesterol-lowering drugs.