#gene mutation

Oncogenic mutations are common, and vary in different tissue types, before people develop cancer.

A new study provides a mechanistic link between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer development.

Mutations can affect how viruses behave and how well drugs and vaccines work.

Nearly a quarter of women met the criteria for counseling based on their personal or family history.

Scientists assembled the largest molecular dataset and used it to uncover new details that may help in diagnosis and treatment.

After being treated for thyroid cancer with a rare mutation, Susan is helping educate others.

Genomic testing can help customize treatment to target tumors.

Cancer Health blogger Dann Wonser says the key to his 14-year survival with non-small-cell lung cancer is his wife, Genevieve de Renne.

Tumors with large numbers of genetic mutations may be especially susceptible to treatment with immunotherapy.

Doctors have used immunotherapy to treat a variety of cancers for almost five decades, and results continue to be encouraging.

People who inherit pathogenic mutations in either one of these genes have an increased risk of developing certain cancers.

Understanding the genetics of an infectious tumor in Tasmanian devils could point toward new treatment targets.

This gene is fused to many partner genes in different tumors. Now, scientists know it causes cancer — and how they might intervene.

Tumors known as gliomas generally don’t respond to the immunotherapy drugs even when the tumor cells are “hypermutated."

One finding of the project was that, on average, the genome of cancer cells contains four or five “driver” mutations.

The crowd-sourced effort has yielded unexpected findings about angiosarcoma, a disease that’s been difficult to study because it is so rare.