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2 lut 2021 · On May 14th, 2013, Angelina Jolie shared the news of her bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy (BRRM), on the basis of her BRCA1 pathogenic variant status. We evaluated the impact of this news on...
14 maj 2013 · The news today is full of reaction to US actress Angelina Jolie’s decision to have surgery to reduce her chances of breast cancer. She made this difficult decision because, having lost her mother to ovarian cancer, she discovered she carries a faulty copy of the BRCA1 gene – which put her at very high risk of getting both forms of the disease.
14 maj 2013 · Movie star Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday she has undergone a double preventative mastectomy. Jolie's mother died from breast cancer at age 56. She inherited the same gene, called BRCA1,...
14 gru 2016 · In her article, she detailed her decision to undergo testing for the BRCA1 gene—known to dramatically increase a woman’s chance for developing breast and ovarian cancers—and to have a preventive double mastectomy as a result of her identification as a carrier of the disease-fueling genetic mutation.
14 maj 2013 · Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer. The 37-year-old mother of six has explained her reasons for having the surgery...
On May 14th 2013, Angelina Jolie (AJ) shared with the world her experience of bilateral risk reducing mastectomies (BRRMs) 11 based on her inheriting a maternally derived pathogenic variant mutation in the BRCA1 gene.
19 gru 2013 · Through genetic testing, Ms Jolie learned that she carried a rare BRCA1 gene mutation and publically disclosed that her doctors estimated her risk of developing breast cancer to be 87%. She went...
