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Discoveries from ASCO that are Shaping Cancer Care

We recently attended the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting—one of the world’s largest gatherings dedicated to advancing cancer care. This year’s event showcased a wave of innovation aimed…

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How Genetics Can Help Personalize Cancer Treatment—Insights from ASCO 2025

How can inherited genetic differences help predict who’s more likely to benefit from cancer treatment—or experience severe side effects? That question is at the heart of two new studies we recently shared…

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MiraKind Year in Review

Happy Holidays! As we reflect on 2024, we’d like to share some of our achievements with you and express our gratitude to our patients and donors. These successes would not have been…

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Breast Cancer Risks: Alcohol vs. HRT

Staying on top of health-related knowledge can be overwhelming. With constant advancements in science, it’s not always easy to keep track of new findings. Yet, it’s important to know which discoveries are…

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Are Women with Breast Cancer at an Increased Risk of Developing Ovarian Cancer?

The number of women diagnosed with breast cancer who are later diagnosed with ovarian cancer is very low. However, the short answer is yes — having breast cancer does indicate you might…

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Recent Research on Estrogen and Alzheimer’s Disease

“People think it’s an old-age person’s disease. It’s like cancer was 25 years ago: You didn’t mention the C word. Cancer activists have done an excellent job of destigmatizing it, putting it…

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Using a Patient’s Unique DNA to Improve Prostate Cancer Treatment

In November 2020, we announced that we had undertaken new research into other genetic variants that are connected to cancer. Specifically, ones that affect prostate cancer.1 Our research has produced a lot…

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New Research: How Inherited DNA -Based Mutations Impact Immunotherapy

The partners on the UCLA research team have made new discoveries about how genetic mutations can help doctors predict patient responses to cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs. In the past, we have spoken a…

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The truth about GWAS and the KRAS-variant

Although much of the world has accepted that GWAS studies, which use an outdated technology looking at large amounts of data, have failed to find any functional mutations, this approach has twice…

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