Rachel Katz underwent a double mastectomy due to her family history of breast cancer.Courtesy Rachel Katz Inevitably, when I tell someone I had this surgery or was planning to get it done, the response is almost always the same. "Oh, so you have the BRCA gene, right?" My answer is...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook BRCA1 Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Acronyms,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. Related to BRCA1:BRCA2 n. A gene that is associated with the development of familial breast cancer when inherited in a defective state. ...
Learning You Have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 Gene Mutation I didn’t find out I had the BRCA1 gene mutation until 2 weeks after I was diagnosed, one week after I had already had a double mastectomy. Even though my breast cancer was stage 1, it was also “triple negative,” or the most ag...
In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed where she revealed she'd undergone a double mastectomy. Although Jolie didn't have breast cancer, a genetic test had revealed she carried agenetic mutationthat her doctors said put her at an 87% risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime...
Young breast cancer patients with a BRCA gene mutation have the same chances of survival after treatment as those without the mutation, a new study finds. BRCA mutations are inherited and increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Between 45% and 90% of women with a BRCA mutation devel...
In some cases, women with a BRCA mutation may decide to undergo preventive surgeries like a double mastectomy to remove the breasts or oophorectomy to remove the ovaries. While extreme, such procedures can reduce the chances of getting cancer for some high-risk women. However,studies have have...
I am 10 years post double mastectomy with saline expander implants following brca1 diagnosis (no cancer). Today I noticed my right implant has deflated. To late to ring the hospital, I am under the Royal Marsden. Any issues I should be concerned…Continue ...
BRCA Gene and Preventive Cancer Surgery by Jeffrey Dach MD Angelina Jolie’s story in a New York Times Op Ed revealed the celebrity underwent not only a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy about two years ago, but also more recently, a bilateral oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries). (1) ...
Shares of genetic test maker Myriad Genetics rose as much as 4 percent on Tuesday, after actress Angelina Jolie detailed her decision to undergo radical double-mastectomy, following testing which showed she carried a gene for breast cancer.
When, within a family, there are several members with cancers of the breast or ovary a genetic predisposition (GP) to these cancers should be considered. Faced with a suggestive family history (Table...A. FitoussiSpringer Berlin Heidelbergoncoplastic & reconstructive surgery for breast cancer...