Background: Douching was recently reported to be associated with elevated levels of
urinary metabolites of endocrine disrupting phthalates, but there is no literature on douching …

Identifying unaffected women with a BRCA mutation can have a significant individual and
population health impact on morbidity and mortality if these women adhere to guidelines for …

The recent implementation of next generation sequencing and multigene platforms has
expanded the spectrum of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, beyond the …

Hereditary women's syndromes due to inherited mutations result in an elevated risk of
developing gynecological cancers over the lifetime of affected carriers. The BRCA 1 and 2 …

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a product of a variety of environmental and genetic factors. Recent
work has highlighted the influence of hereditary syndromes on pancreatic cancer incidence …

Background The burden of hereditary breast cancer in India is not well defined. Moreover,
genetic testing criteria (National Comprehensive Cancer Network [NCCN] and …

Genetic testing for melanoma has yet to enter routine clinical use because of the scarcity of
available data on the effect of test reporting. A prospective study of 59 members of Utah …

Breast neoplasms are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in women. Even if
surgery is the treatment of choice, other forms of less invasive radical treatment are …

Breast cancer remains a major health issue in the world with 1.7 million new cases in 2012
worldwide. It is the second cause of death from cancer in western countries. Genomics have …

In this paper we investigate how data openness can be made possible in communal
settings. We adopt a utility perspective that foregrounds the use value of data …