UK Study Identifies Ovarian Cancer Risk Gene

August 8, 2011 | A new study, funded by Cancer Research UK, has identified a genetic glitch that increases a woman's risk of ovarian cancer six-fold. One in every 11 women who carry a mutation in the DNA repair gene, RAD51D, is likely to develop ovarian cancer in her lifetime, compared with a typical risk of about one in 70 for women in the general population. The Independent