Nazneen Rahman, Professor of Cancer Genetics
New cancer risk gene found
Carrying a mutated BRIP1 gene doubles the risk of breast cancer – by aged 70 these women’s risk rises from 1-in-12 to 1-in-6.
The Institute of Cancer Research study (pub: Nature Genetics) focused on the BRIP1 gene in 1,212 women with breast cancer who had a family history of the disease that was not due to the known breast cancer genes, BRCA1 or BRCA2, comparing these with 2,081 healthy people. Nine BRIP1 mutations were found in the cancer group, only two in the healthy. The researchers concluded that carrying a faulty version of BRIP1 doubled women’s risk of developing the disease – taking their risk by aged 70 from 1-in-12 to around 1-in-6.
Lead author Nazneen Rahman, Professor of Cancer Genetics at the institute, said there are many more genes to be found ‘…but with each step we are making progress.’
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Technical infrastructure for EU funded R-bay project
Carestream Health is a major technical infrastructure provider to the EU-funded R-Bay validation project, which aims to address the uneven spread of radiologists across member states. CARESTREAM Radiology and Information Management Solutions are driving the initial test platform for the project by facilitating remote reporting of images from hospitals in Denmark, Finland and Czech Republic by clinical providers in Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.
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Accu-Chek® Combo – put effective diabetes management into action
At the annual congress of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) this year in Rome, Roche Diabetes Care introduced Accu-Chek Combo – the insulin pump system that combines an insulin pump with an intelligent glucose monitoring system, a bolus calculator, and an integrated pump remote-control.
