Blogs about: Familial Cancer

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Looking to the cancer genetics future | ICG-FBOC meeting

ramunas wrote 5 months ago: Next week I’m going to International Collaborative Group on Familial Breast and Ovarian Cance … more »

Tags: breast cancer, cancer genetics, Genetic testing, hereditary cancer, media, ovarian cancer, Personal

Prostate Cancer | Old&New SNPs and deCODEPrCa

ramunas wrote 5 months ago: This week was undoubtfully very important in elucidation of genetic predisposition to prostate cance … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, Genetic testing, hereditary cancer, Prostate Cancer, Research, sporadic cancer

Five SNPs Array Predicts Prostate Cancer | Focus5 (TM)3 comments

ramunas wrote 6 months ago: (source) Joint Swedish (Karolinska Institute) and US study published in NEJM reveals cummulative as … more »

Tags: hereditary cancer, cancer genetics, Genetic testing, Prostate Cancer

Happy 2008! | And Briefly About 20075 comments

ramunas wrote 6 months ago: (artwork by Hollis Sigler, 1948-2001) Happy New Year 2008! Especially to all people, who encountere … more »

Tags: breast cancer, BT Test, cancer genetics, DiaGenic, Genetic testing, MammaPrint, Oncotype DX, PC Detect, Prostate Cancer

Who will catch the COBRA?1 comment

ramunas wrote 7 months ago: I expect very exciting news about recently discovered cofactor of BRCA1 (COBRA1) - a member of the n … more »

Tags: breast cancer, cancer genetics, Research

BOADICEA Final Version Released1 comment

ramunas wrote 7 months ago: Here is probably the most accurate breast&ovarian cancer risk/mutation probability calculation w … more »

Tags: bio-software, breast cancer, cancer genetics, Genetic testing, hereditary cancer, ovarian cancer, technology

Complexities of BRCA genes3 comments

ramunas wrote 7 months ago: There are some exciting news in cancer genetics. An extremely informative article about BRCA 1/2 gen … more »

Tags: breast cancer, cancer genetics, Genetic testing, hereditary cancer, ovarian cancer, sporadic cancer

Exciting Discoveries of 2007 | Breast Cancer7 comments

ramunas wrote 9 months ago: It seems that year 2007 is one of the most exciting year in breast cancer genetics. There have been … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, breast cancer, Research

Caspase 8 Story | Breast Cancer1 comment

ramunas wrote 9 months ago: An important example, how we need to interprete association studies with caution between different p … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, breast cancer, Research

Hereditary Cancer Public Perception | Cancerbackup2 comments

ramunas wrote 11 months ago: There were recently data released from survey performed by information charity Cancerbackup and Gene … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, hereditary cancer, media, sporadic cancer

Association With Prostate and Colon Cancer | 8q244 comments

ramunas wrote 11 months ago: Recent two years were (and continues to be) very prolific in the research of common genetic variant … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, Colon Cancer, Genetic testing, Prostate Cancer

Characteristics of Hereditary, Familial and Sporadic Cancer Syndromes2 comments

ramunas wrote 11 months ago: In a recently published recommendations for risk assessment and genetic counseling for hereditary b … more »

Tags: Basic Concepts, cancer genetics, hereditary cancer, sporadic cancer

Management of an Inherited Predisposition to Breast Cancer | NEJM1 comment

ramunas wrote 1 year ago: There have been recently a nice review about management of inherited predisposition to breast cancer … more »

Tags: BRCA, breast cancer, cancer genetics, Genetic testing, hereditary cancer

Cancer Family Clinics | A Brief Introduction

ramunas wrote 1 year ago: Clinical cancer genetics is very new and rapidly expanding field - its more mainstream beginning cou … more »

Tags: cancer genetics, hereditary cancer

Genetic cancer classification | Basic concepts2 comments

ramunas wrote 1 year ago: When talking about cancer, specialists often distinguish only two forms: hereditary (or inherited) … more »

Tags: Basic Concepts, hereditary cancer, sporadic cancer


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