Genes - A to Z

Genes is a sub-category of Causes of cancer

• Bladder cancer - molecular biology and genetics
• Causes of cancer - Inherited gene faults
• Chromosomes, genes and proteins
• Dr Janet Risk
• Genes and cancer
• How do our genes affect our risk of cancer?
• New targets for diagnosis and treatment
• Our impact on breast cancer
• Prof David Lane
• Prof Nick Lemoine
• Prof Richard Marais
• Prof Tony Kouzarides
• What causes cancer?

• Cancer genes
• Childhood cancer - diagnosis and treatment
• Clinical cancer genetics
• Family history - when cancer runs in the family
• History and summary of cancer genetics
• Inherited cancer risk
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk factors
• Prof Alan Clarke
• Prof Maggie Knowles
• Prof Paul Harkin
• Prof Roland Wolf
• What are we made of?

• News story: New scheme to routinely test patients for inherited cancer genes
  21 May 2013
• Press Release: Study reveals the genetic variations that raise the risk of breast, prostate or ovarian cancer
  27 March 2013
• Press Release: First evidence that obesity gene is risk factor for melanoma
  3 March 2013
• News story: Israeli researchers developing BRCA 'radiation' test
  22 January 2013
• Press Release: Exposure to X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA faults
  6 September 2012
• Press Release: Gene link to higher rates of bowel cancer in men
  27 May 2012
• News story: New 'drug sensitivity encyclopaedias' will aid global cancer research
  28 March 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
• News story: New genetic fault linked to lung cancer in non-smokers
  22 December 2011

• News story: Genetic changes that cause prostate cancer 'develop in periodic bursts'
  26 April 2013
• Press Release: Family history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival
  20 March 2013
• Press Release: Bowel cancers reshuffle their genetic pack to cheat treatment
  27 February 2013
• Press Release: Bowel cancer gene discovery cracks mystery of families with a strong history of the disease
  23 December 2012
• Press Release: Study suggests patients should be screened before receiving vemurafenib
  13 August 2012
• Press Release: Scientists re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global study
  18 April 2012
• News story: International consortium releases cancer gene data
  15 March 2012
• Press Release: Women with faulty BRCA genes more likely to survive ovarian cancer
  24 January 2012
• News story: US researchers identify possible 'high risk' prostate cancer gene
  11 January 2012
• News story: Scientists move a step closer to targeting key cancer process
  9 December 2011

• March 2012 podcast

• January 2007 podcast