Family history - A to Z

Family history is a sub-category of Causes of cancer and Genes

• How do our genes affect our risk of cancer?

• Our impact on breast cancer

• News story: Israeli researchers developing BRCA 'radiation' test
  22 January 2013
• Press Release: High-risk women may need more frequent ovarian cancer screening
  7 December 2012
• Press Release: Hundreds more breast cancer patients should be tested for BRCA1 gene
  15 February 2012
• News story: US researchers identify possible 'high risk' prostate cancer gene
  11 January 2012
• News story: Scientists find new genetic sites that increase Hodgkin's lymphoma risk
  1 November 2010
• News story: Men with faulty BRCA2 gene have estimated 1-in-15 chance of breast cancer by age 70
  8 July 2010
• News story: US scientists home in on new bowel cancer gene
  3 June 2010
• Press Release: Scientists in major prostate cancer gene discovery
  20 September 2009
• News story: Family history may have role in brain cancer
  14 November 2008
• Press Release: New computer software helps GPs spot family cancer risk
  14 August 2007

• Press Release: Bowel cancer gene discovery cracks mystery of families with a strong history of the disease
  23 December 2012
• News story: Scientists find rare childhood kidney cancer gene fault
  16 February 2012
• News story: Gene offers clue to cause of oesophageal cancer
  19 January 2012
• Press Release: Scientists unlock further prostate cancer secrets
  10 July 2011
• News story: Healthy lifestyle can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family history
  18 October 2010
• Press Release: Gene study backs promise of breast cancer drugs to treat hereditary prostate cancer
  24 June 2010
• Press Release: Scientists discover five new genetic sites that increase breast cancer risk
  9 May 2010
• Press Release: Breast cancer four times more likely in women with strong family history
  19 January 2009
• News story: Family history of bowel cancer linked with reduced risk of recurrence
  6 June 2008
• News story: Women with breast cancer from small families may be unaware of genetic link
  26 June 2007