BRCA Clinics Expand Further Beyond Breast Cancer (

A new clinic in San Francisco is opening with an unusual mission: to provide care for people affected by mutations in two particular genes linked to a high risk of cancer. The move highlights the ways growing knowledge about the genetics of the disease is reshaping care for patients. The clinic, at University of California, San Francisco, will treat patients with abnormalities in the genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. The mutations are widely recognized as inheritable causes of breast and ovaria...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news