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Do you ever wonder why one medication works for one patient but not another? The answer may lie in pharmacogenomics. This growing area of personalized medicine studies how a person’s unique genetic makeup influences his or her response to pharmaceutical drugs and medications.
Breast cancer is one disease that often causes a variety of more obvious signs and symptoms that may alert you to a potential concern to share with your doctor. Since early detection is key, doctors recommend that women know what these symptoms are, and learn how to spot them.
With all the awareness around breast cancer these days, lots of attention has been focused on the risks posed by BRCA gene mutations. But many people mistakenly believe that BRCA is only a concern for women, even though men are just as likely as women to have a BRCA mutation.
Your family’s health history may say a lot about your own health, and Mother’s Day is as good a time as any to learn more about the ones you love.
There is one cancer that is silently killing women: ovarian cancer. Why? Largely because it has no screening test, and women are largely unaware of its symptoms.
A warning from the federal government linking some breast implants to a rare form of lymphoma has many women concerned about the risks posed by their own implants.
Wily cancer cells often know what works and what doesn't when it comes to thriving and surviving.
When it comes to managing the cancer risks you’re born with, you may gain new insights with the help of a blood test.
Put your health at the top of the priority list by scheduling important tests that may help find, and in some cases, prevent cancer.
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