Improved survival in non-Ashkenazi Jewish ovarian cancer patients with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations

Posted by Cara on February 11, 2011

A new study shows that ovarian cancer patients who had the non-Askenazi Jewish BRCA mutation had longer Progression Free Surivival time and Overall Survival times than ovairan cancer patients who did not have any BRCA mutations. 

See abstract here