Jolie Pitt has announced more surgery, this time to mitigate her risk of developing ovarian cancer. But this should ideally not have the same “Jolie effect” as her last operation.
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Genetic testing for cancer will become more common and risk reducing surgery is one way to cut the risk.
Recent cases in Australia and the United States and a new case in Canada show how controversial the subject of gene patents is. But technological advances and the cost of patenting may soon mean gene patents…
Screening can save lives, which is why the NHS offers checks for breast, cervical and bowel cancers. Breast screening tries to pick up cancer at an early stage when it may be more treatable. Cervical screening…
Awareness efforts can focus public attention and help scientists raise funds for research. But the impact on eradicating the disease itself and helping patients today is much less clear.
It is well established that faults in the BRCA2 gene (and the BRCA1 gene that prompted actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a mastectomy) increase the risk of breast, ovarian, prostate and other cancers…
Breast cancer accounts for one in four female cancers diagnosed in Australia each year. It is estimated that by the age of 85, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and one in 39 will…
Extracts from a berry can improve the effectiveness of a chemotherapy drug, according to research published today in the Journal of Clinical Pathology. But it’s best to view this finding with caution because…
The purported link between abortion and breast cancer is based on research that’s no longer accepted as valid because its methods are so flawed. But that hasn’t stopped politicians such as Fred Nile and…
If you believe cancer is a disease that strikes from nowhere with little in your control to prevent it, you’d be mistaken on both counts. Most cases of cancer are considered preventable by positive nutrition…
Angelina Jolie made the decision to have a double mastectomy after discovering she carried a faulty copy of the hereditary gene BRCA1 and was told she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer. Jolie…
Women with a greater number of moles are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a new US study. Using data from…
Women who consume a high amount of red meat in early adulthood may be at increased risk of breast cancer later in life, a…
A new test may predict the risk of the most common type of breast cancer spreading to other organs. The effectiveness of…
Most people would be aware of Angelina Jolie’s preventative double mastectomy after she found she was carrying a mutation to the BRCA 1 gene which confers an extremely high risk of breast cancer. But according…
Most cancers happen by chance and there is no obvious inherited reason for them. However a small proportion of cancers occur as a result of a genetic predisposition because a gene passed down through generation…
More and more people are beating cancer – over the past 20 years the proportion of people surviving the disease for more than ten years has increased by a third, from 34% to 45%. But as the population…
Women with the BRCA1 mutation should have their ovaries removed before the age of 35 to reduce their risk of ovarian and…
A large study on the benefits of breast cancer screening has cast doubt on the value of mammograms in reducing deaths from the disease in women aged 40-49 compared to other methods such as physical examination…
Alcohol and cancer is a topic that arouses a lot of controversy: many Australians like the odd drink but don’t want to make the connection to cancer, the world’s biggest killer. The World Health Organisation’s…
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences,, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide University
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James Stewart Chair Of Surgery, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor & Deputy Director, Women's Health Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Specialist Consultant / Head: Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Stellenbosch University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Senior Research Assistant, Stellenbosch University
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Ph.D., Sociology/Social Justice, University of Windsor
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Professor of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Deakin University