Many cancers hereditary, says study
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The study, conducted by deCODE Genetics in Iceland, examined the rates at which cancer occurred among all first to fifth-degree relatives of 32,000 patients who had cancer diagnosed between 1955 and 2002.
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Doctors have long known that certain variations of genes boost the risk of breast cancer, but a new study says there is also a gene variant that offers modest protection against the disease.
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NEW YORK  - For African-American men, the chances of developing prostate cancer are increased if a sister has breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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NEW YORK  - It's now well known that people  who carry mutations in the BRCA 1 and 2 genes are prone to  ovarian and breast cancer, but new findings show that these  genes also increase risk of certain other cancers as well.
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UK scientists have identified a gene which increases the risk of bowel cancer by 20 per cent.
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Genes play a key role in the development of lung cancer, boosting risk up to 3.5-fold among family members, according to a study of the Icelandic population in the Dec. 22 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Approximately a decade ago, germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 were identified as the most common detectable causes of a hereditary predisposition to breast (and ovarian) cancer.
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NEW YORK  - A syndrome that increases the risk of some skin cancers may be a subset of a syndrome that increases the risk of colon cancer, report researchers from The Ohio State University, Columbus.
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True or false: Breast cancer is less likely to strike a woman who has no family history of the disease. Believe it or not, the answer is &quot;false.
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A new national study will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
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Scientists have taken a key step toward revealing the causes of prostate cancer, finding that a combination of five gene variants dramatically raises the risk of the disease. Added to family history, they accounted for nearly half of all cases in a study of Swedish men.
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NEW YORK  - Confirming previous research,  the results of a population-based Danish study show that a high  birth weight is associated with an increased risk of breast  cancer later in life.
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Researchers say they have found six new sites of variation in the genome that increase the risk of breast cancer.
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Founder genetic mutation fingered US researchers have identified a married couple who sailed from England to the US in around 1630 as the bearers of a genetic mutation which puts their numerous descendants at higher risk of a hereditary form of colon cancer.â¦
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The number of mutated genes driving cancer development is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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WASHINGTON Oct 21, 2004 - A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause of diseases ranging from high blood pressure to high cholesterol and even
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Scientists are homing in on the genes for prostate cancer after carrying out the biggest study yet to identify the inherited causes of the disease.