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A provocative essay in the New York Times by journalist Aliyah Baruchin has me thinking over, once again, a question that I occasionally grapple with: If there’s no family history, but you get breast cancer, especially at an early age--43 for Baruchin, 41 for me--should you be tested for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation? The question is especially troubling if, like Baruchin and myself, you are of Askenazic Jewish descent, a group that has a disproportionately large number of women with the...
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BRCA1 and BRCA2: No Longer the Only Troublesome Genes Out There
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More high-risk women opt for double mastectomy
More young, healthy women who have a familial or genetic predisposition to breast cancer are opting for a preventive double mastectomy, experts say.... Read more »
Why some women choose a preventive mastectomy
The number of young women who choose to have a double mastectomy in order to prevent breast cancer or a breast cancer recurrence is rising. Studies... Read more »
Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Ethnicity, Race, Genes, and Family...
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast. There are two main types of breast cancer:Ductal carcinoma starts in the tubes... Read more »
Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Ethnicity, Race, Genes, and Family...
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
About 12% of women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Each year in the United States, about 207,000 women are diagnosed with... Read more »
Genetic Testing Facilities and Cost
Source: Breastcancer.org
Testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 is usually done on a blood sample taken in your doctor’s office and sent to a commercial laboratory or a research... Read more »
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