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Learning More and
Taking Action

Understanding and Managing Your Risk

For Cancer Survivors

Tell Us Your Story

Organizations

Background Information

Glossary

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Resources

Our resources include:

Links to Organizations with news and information on

Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC)
Breast Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Cancer in General
Women's Health

Links to recommended Background Information from authoritative sources, including

The American Cancer Society
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The Mayo Clinic
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The National Cancer Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Library of Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yale Cancer Genetics Counseling
Many more

A Glossary of the terms used on this site and in the field

A father who carries a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation has a 50% chance of passing it on to each one of his children.