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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 patient's 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. to the rescue for a beloved drama teacher. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, ...

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. we're 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 in our cnn legal analyst paul cowen to talk about this and there is a lot of different layers to t...

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. jolie's tests came back positive for a mutation on a gene known as brca 1. mutations on these genes like the one found in jolie's tests exponentially ...

Belongs to me. here's how i chose to make these decisions. that said, i think the specificity of angelina's 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. it's 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 it's brave to open up the world's scrutiny to her decisions and not everybody has access to that care, even once you have access to the care, there's a spectrum of choices you can make. >> part of wha...

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 decade since myriad was awarded the patents. with no competition, myriad can set a single price for the ...