Ovarian cancer genetic factors

Women who are already members of the family history of ovarian cancer may wish to consider testing to ascertain their individual risk of cancer. New research has found that the disease can be caused by a genetic variant that is passed along to future generations.

A team of researchers from Yale University have blood tests on patients, treatment for ovarian cancer, seek genetic biomarkers. They found that 25 percent of these patients have mutations in the gene. A total of 60 per cent of those with family history of cancer was mutation.

"For many women out there with a strong family history of ovarian cancer, which previously had not identified a genetic trigger for their families; It can also be it for them, "says Joanne b. Weidhaas, Yale Cancer Center researcher and co-senior author of the study. "Our findings support the [genetic] option is actually a new genetic marker for risk of ovarian cancer.

Especially difficult to detect until he put forward at a late stage ovarian cancer. This usually makes the disease fatal. Nevertheless, Weidhaas said that identifying individuals who are more at risk can improve survival rates.

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