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Will improve breast cancer screening. currently women with a family history of cancer are urged to do a genetic risk assessment. now medical officials now want doctors to consider a patients personal medical history, which could lead to identifying the brca-1 or brca-2 genes that greatly increase breast and ovarian cancer risk. they hope the targeted screening will help save lives through earlier detection. ask your doctor. when we come back tonight, to the rescue for a beloved drama teacher. ...

Plans to fight any attempt to extra do it him from hong kong. the u.s. supreme court today ruling on an issue in the headlines recently because of actress angelina jolie. she brought this to our attention weeks ago. were talking about the gene mutation linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. jolie revealed she had undergone a double mastectomy because of the mutation that put much higher risk per the disease. today the high court ruled that human genes cannot be patented. i want to bring...

Jolie and her left and right breasts. she and they were everywhere after we woke up to a tuesday morning new york times editorial from jolie about her difficult decision to undergo a prophylactic double mastectomy to reduce her likelihood of developing breast cancer. she knew the odds she was facing after a test revealed she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of getting the ovarian cancer that killed her mother at age 56. jolies tests came back positive for a mutation on ...

Belongs to me. heres how i chose to make these decisions. that said, i think the specificity of angelinas case, you mentioned, not all breast cancer is caused by this gene mutation. not all women chose the double mastectomy choice which is a radical choice. its a specific choice because she has a high and unambiguous result to her test. as much as the single stories are incredibly res nant and its brave to open up the worlds scrutiny to her decisions and not everybody has access to that care, ev...

To you? think again. because every copy of each brca 1 and 2 gene in every cell of my body and yours belongs to a private company. so does all the information those genes may be able to tell us about our health. and while those genes are just hanging out inside your cells doing what genes do, they are busy making myriad genetics a lot of money. the patents give the company the sole right to brca analysis that angelina jolie test. nearly one million people have decided to take it in the past deca...

Angelina jolie, the supreme court and your dna. she revealed she decided to get a double mastectomy after taking a genetic test. it turns out this test is really provided by only one company in the entire united states of america. that monopoly is creating a controversy going all the way to the supreme court. poppy harlow is "outfront" with an investigation. >> reporter: her announcement made headlines around the world. angelina jolie underwent a double mastectomy after a genetic test showed she...

The supreme court. poppy harlow is "outfront" with an investigation. >> reporter: her announcement made headlines around the world. angelina jolie underwent a double mastectomy after a genetic test showed she had a mutated brca 1 gene, giving her an 87% chance of getting breast cancer. her news put this company front and center. its not a big player in the big picture of big biotech companies. but it has patents on the brca-1 and 2 genes. when mutated, those genes are linked to an increased risk...

But making a sdwigs decision to have your breasts removed is a tough decision. a lot of support for angelina jolie who has invited us into her journey. she called this piece my medical choice and go indepth about her difficult health decision. actress, activist, advocate, mother. angelina jolie is many things and tuesday the actress added proactive survivor to the list. she talked about her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, after testing positive for brca 1, increases a woman...

Lot longer than if she did not take such drastic measures. what do you think about that? is that accurate? >> yeah, no, i think it is and because it is not only these women sometimes it is a difficult decision to make and you have to decide where you are in your life-style because you really should take out your ovaries too. so obviously you cant have kids. and the tubes attached to the ovaris. so you have to make this decision where you are in your life-style. but it does reduce the risk becaus...

Descent. they have two first degree relative, mother or sister or three second degree relatives, mothers aunts that have breast cancer. there are other genes that cause it but the majority of cases are sporadic. so if you dont have a family history of any type of disease, then genetic testing might not help you because you can get a sporadic case of it, a sporadic mutation we dont know about. even though we know about these two genes, and there are a bunch of other genes were starting to identif...