Angelina Jolie's decision to have her breasts removed because she carries a rare defective gene underscored the painful choices women face in trying to prevent breast cancer.DENISE GRADYTARA PARKERPOPEPAM BELLUCK
Jolie is no stranger to openly discussing her health. In 2013, she chronicledher decision to have a preventive double mastectomyin an op-ed for the New York Times after she learned she had a BRCA1 gene mutation, which raised her risk for breast cancer. Two years later,she had her ovaries...
After Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed that she had a double mastectomy due to a genetic mutation, more women have elected to have the procedure. Dr. Elisa Port, chief of breast surgery at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, joins the
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Carriers of the BRCA1 gene reputedly stand a 60% chance of getting breast cancer and a 40% chance of getting ovarian cancer at some point in their lives.Jolie is now encouraging other women to get tested and follow her lead. And all this because there is supposedly no effective (allopath...
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In May 2013, Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times opinion piece that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy because she had a family history of cancer and carried a rare mutation of the BRCA1 gene. Media coverage has been extensive, but
Leave it to Angelina to raise awareness—and plenty of questions—instantaneously: Who should get tested for the "breast cancer genes," and when? And does the test really cost $3,000?
Orringer was part of a team of physicians who cared for Jolie when she had a prophylactic mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. Jolie carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, which significantly increased her risk of developing breast cancer, she wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times in ...
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