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LEIDEN, Netherlands, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Dutch researchers say genetic counselors are key to how women deal with the results of breast cancer gene tests. The study, published in Genetics in Medicine, assessed the psychological adjustment to DNA testing for BRCA genemutations associated with hereditary breast cancer. In the 215 women in the study, the results were true negative...
Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in Medicine, official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG).
Scientists have identified genemutations responsible for a psychiatric disorder that causes people to compulsively pull their own hair. Trichotillomania is often accompanied by other symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder or Tourette's syndrome. People with the disorder may have hair loss or bald patches, but often mask their habit. The Duke University
Thrombophilia refers collectively to a condition which can cause excessive blood clotting. Thrombophilia can cause first and second trimester miscarriage by creating blood clots in the placenta and depriving the fetus of oxygen and vital nutrients. Thrombophilia is said to affect 5-8% of the population. In the general population who have thrombophilia, it can manifest itself either as deep vein...
... mentor, Robert Hayashi.Her research project, called “The Role Of Telomere Dysfunction In The Pathogenesis Of Childhood Cancer,” examines specific new genemutations and whether these mutations put children at increased risk of cancer, the foundation said.Pediatric oncology fellowships last for three years. The first year is spent in the clinic and the next two years...
... noted. So what causes PCOS? "There may be a family history of PCOS but even if PCOS has a genetic link, it is likely that not all women with the gene will develop the condition. Various aspects of the syndrome may be differentially inherited. It is probably a multigenetic disorder, although in rare instances, a single genemutation may give rise to a phenotype...
... documented a case or two of Hispanic women with aggressive breast cancer linked to a particular genetic mutation. The women had roots in southern Colorado, near the New Mexico border. “I said, ‘I have a patient with the mutation, and she’s only in her 40s,’” Castellano recalls. “Then Lisa said that she had seen a couple of cases like that. And Jeff and Lisen had one or two...
What would you do if you learned that you have the genetic marker, known as BRCA genemutation, for breast cancer and you had a 95 percent of developing the disease? Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick decided to make a documentary film about the dilemma facing her, like having prophylactic mastectomies, and many other women who have been confronted with the information that they have the...
Joanna Rudnick is well-educated, beautiful and funny; she's also cursed with cancer's legacy. She is carrying the potentially deadly BRCA genemutation , which gives her chilling odds of breast or ovarian cancer during her lifetime. (It's a diagnosis shared by actress Christina Applegate -- who did have early-stage cancer in one breast -- and "Gossip Girl" writer Jessica Queller, who...
