Ovarian cancer genetic factors

To check, look at their individual risk want women who are family members of ovarian cancer may have a history, cancer tests. A new study found that the disease can be caused by a genetic variant that is passed along over generations.

A team of researchers at Yale University has blood tests on a group of patients treated for genetic biomarker looking for ovarian cancer. They found that 25 percent of patients had a mutation in a specific gene. Overall, the cancer mutation had 60 percent of respondents with a love story.

"For many women out there with a strong family history of ovarian cancer, no identified genetic trigger for her family had previously disease;" "This well for them, it may", said Joanne B. Weidhaas, researcher in the Yale Cancer Center and co-author of the study. "Our results support that the [genetic] VARIANT is actually a new genetic marker ovarian cancer risk."

Ovarian cancer is particularly difficult to detect until it has reached at a late stage. This is typically the disease fatal. However, Weidhaas said that the identification of persons who are more at risk could improve survival rates.

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