Recently it has been observed that carriers of germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, which confer significantly increased risk for the hereditary form of ovarian cancer, exhibit higher response rates to platinum/paclitaxel chemotherapy (the standard of care for ovarian cancer), a longer progression-free survival, and improved overall survival as compared with non-carriers [5-7]. Here, BRCA1 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.