Genetic and genomic testing guide breast cancer risk assessment and treatment, as discussed by Dr. Mark Robson at the Miami ...

A 59-year-old British woman preparing for the funeral of her mother who died of breast cancer was diagnosed with the same ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men younger than 50, and ...

Scientists have revealed exactly how tobacco smoke damages DNA to drive the development of different types of head and neck ...

Cancer genetics is the study in humans and other animals of heritable gene variants that cause or confer altered risk of tumour or hematological malignancy. Individual cancer risk varies and is ...

Researchers at City of Hope have found that cell mutations are necessary but not always sufficient for tumors to form.

"The interaction between inherited genetic factors and the timing of mutations in the tumor's DNA is central to understanding how prostate cancer evolves," said Dr. Paul Boutros, professor of ...

Ultra-rapid digital droplet PCR can measure the levels of tumor cells in a tissue sample during surgery in about 15 minutes.

A team of Singapore scientists has made a significant discovery in understanding stomach cancer, a disease that remains one ...

The findings, published in Cancer Discovery, evaluated the roles of inherited genetic factors passed down from our parents and somatic mutations acquired during tumor formation. The research shows ...

Mice with identical genetics and environmental exposures display different cancer risk profiles based on distinct epigenetic ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argue authors of a new essay. It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as ...