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Absolutely heroic. that is what brad pitt is calling his wifes decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy in order to reduce her chances of developing breast cancer. jolie revealing in a new op-ed "new york times," i chose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know they might be living under the shadow of cancer. gene testing revealed jolie carries brca 1, the gene that causes breast cancer. the actresss mom battled breast cancer for ten years before succ...

Now listen to this. >> genetics, what can it mean, the ability to perfect the physical and mental characteristics of every unborn child. >> that was a clip from the 1997 sici-fi movie "gatica" to ensur only the best traits are handed down from generation to generation. dna becomes the passport to better careers and lifestyles but could a persons genetics be exploited for commercial gain in real life? on monday the supreme court is going to be hearing arguments to determine if companies can paten...

The risk factor groups are the ones that they may have genetic family history of ovarian cancer and if you have one of these genes, brca-1 and brca-2, they are at high risk and if you have never been pregnant in the past, it is a risk, and, obesity is a risk and, the exciting thing about ovarian cancer, there is a group in yale, coming up with a genetic testing or screening and im excited about this, because they are looking at a few proteins that change in our dna when it comes to ovarian cance...

Answers from all of them. so i think that if youre interested in knowing your genetic vulnerability, speak to your doctor. he or she will be able to know what specific test to take and where to send it. thats important, for example, in breast cancer. a woman has a sister or a mother or some other familial incident of breast cancer, she may want to know whether shes vulnerable. there is a very reliable test for that which identifies the brca 1 and brca 2 genes. if you turn out to have one of thos...

That theyre not patented in natural form but purified. has that been a good thing? again, thats the question to ask. does this benefit the public? are the patents producing something the public benefits from? i think when it comes to some patents used to inspire therapeutic development like, for instance, amgen would say they would not have invested to treat anemia without a patent on the gene afraid somebody else would swoop in and take over their market after theyd done all the work. so perhap...

Make today. there are several ways you can detect breast cancer. you can detect it yourself, women taking a shower, so on, and the breasts are wet, can pick up the masses themselves. doctors can pick them up in physical examination, and the mammogram which is the x-ray, can pick them up and the sonogram, sound waves, can pick them up and the mri, magnetic resonance imaging, can pick them up. they are all good. i want to tell you, if you are a woman with a family history of breast cancer, sister,...

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You. help me to understand what tbrc gene is. >> its not a routine test available for all women. when we think about breast cancer screening, its uncommon. 90% of the women who have it dont have an inherited mutation. we should not think this is a routine test like for diabetes or for high cholesterol. we should not expect that everyone should be wanting to have a brca gene mutation test for that. of the tests that exists, brca 1 and 2 are the most common. african-americans so far are not. jewis...