...research project that were released Tuesday. Ever since their discovery in the early 1990s, mutations in the genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2 have elicited fear in carriers. It was believed that having a mutation in one of the genes almost always led to breast...

...All of the women had advanced ovarian cancer. Researchers focused on Jewish women because they more often carry the defective BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are linked to higher rates of ovarian and breast cancer. About 10 percent of all ovarian cancer cases...

...tremendous help. Love said she got a call recently from a San Diego surgeon with a young patient who had tested positive for BRCA1, one of the known mutations that increase the risk of breast cancer. Since the patient was in her 20s, the doctor was loath...