One of the most intriguing findings was for cat breast cancers, more than half of which showed a mutation in a gene called ...

A pioneering test is improving early diagnosis for people with hereditary cancer caused by a genetic condition. Just over 30 ...

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in ...

It seemed deeply unfair that in this era of precision medicine, where targeted therapies are the treatment of choice for cancer in humans, they didn’t exist for cats,’ says the senior author of the st ...

Cancer researchers are making strides in efforts to use genetic profiling to develop a more precise understanding of the ...

The study, published in Nature Communications, used family studies and genetically engineered mice to understand how gene defects contribute to disease.

Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...

Genetic predisposition to excess body weight was linked to 15% higher mortality in breast cancer survivors, with more walking ...