(Clockwise from top left) BTS Meal donated to Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kota Bharu, US Chargé d’Affaires to South Korea Rob Rapson with his BTS Meal in Seoul, BTS Meal bag in Washington, framed bag and sauce packaging and BTS Meal in Malaysia (Photos: @PurpleProject7, Rob Rapson, @btsliv
Angelina Jolie, who has never had cancer before, decided to have a preventive double mastectomy because she has a BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts her at increased risk for breast cancer. Photo: Filepic/AFP
In 2013, American actress Angelina Jolie, who has never had cancer before, decided to have a preventive double mastectomy because she has a BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts her at increased risk (87%) of developing breast cancer. And, in 2015, she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her risk of developing ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother at the age of just 56.
During that time, there were only two genes that were usually tested for cancer risk in an individual – BRCA1 and BRCA2.
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He said as many as 28.5 out of the 10,000 population of children from the age of 0-18 years, or 25,000 to 30,000 children in the country suffer from chronic or terminal illnesses that required specific palliative care. This specific palliative care includes full-time palliative care, coordination and comprehensive management among multidisciplinary treating groups, as well as providing support to family members to cope with the grief and bereavement process, he said when launching the Handbook of Children s Palliative Care Malaysia virtually on Tuesday (April 6).
Dr Adham said the ministry faced a big challenge to further strengthen paediatric palliative medicine services, as the planning of these services would be continued under the 12th Malaysia Plan by expanding regionally to Penang and Sabah.
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