Inheriting a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 puts you at higher risk of breast, prostate, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Genetic ...

C EGFR T790M gene variant face roughly 25 times the lung cancer risk of noncarriers, according to the largest-yet study of ...

The inherited mutation substantially increases the chance of developing lung cancer, including in people who don't smoke.

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...

Every time a cell divides, its chromosomes must be distributed correctly between the two daughter cells. Central to this ...

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers in Queensland and the United States discovered that the human X chromosome attracts an unusual kind of DNA mutation, potentially doubling the ...

Lung cancer is so closely associated with smoking that people who have never smoked may assume their risk is extremely low.

One rare inherited mutation raised lung cancer risk more than smoking did, and the effect was strongest in people who never ...