- Simple blood tests offer telling signs of someone's genetic risk for developing hereditary diseases such as breast cancer. (ABC News)
- After decades of work, researchers have discovered a new gene variant linked with a higher risk of developing hereditary prostate cancer. (Huffington Post)
- ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. (YAHOO!)
- January 11, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a rare but recurrent genetic mutation that is associated with a significantly higher risk for hereditary prostate cancer. (Medscape News)
- Last fall, the United States Preventive Services Task Force concluded that healthy men should no longer be routinely screened for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen, or P.S.A., blood test. (New York Times Blogs)
- Scientists say theyve identified the first genetic mutation with a major effect on the risk of prostate cancer that runs in families and strikes men early, by age 55. The mutation accounts for only about 1 percent of all prostate cancers. (AP - msnbc.com)
- PUNE: Kalyani Group in association with Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, on Wednesday announced that it will soon launch a state-of-the-art Institute for Prostate Cancer for research, diagnostics, treatment and education in the city. (Times of India)
- Men who inherit a rare genetic mutation are 10 to 20 times more likely than average to develop prostate cancer, a study has found. (Google)
- AFP - US researchers said Wednesday they have found the first genetic mutation linked to an inherited form of prostate cancer, raising new hope of one day improving early screening for the disease. (France 24)
- NEW YORK — Scientists say they've identified the first genetic mutation with a major effect on the risk of prostate cancer that runs in families and strikes men early, by age 55. (Washington Post)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Prostate cancer
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