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"I worried that the man I was starting to like would be disappointed or repulsed ... I needed to warn him so he wouldn’t be surprised at what he saw or touched."
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AstraZeneca’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Lynparza (olaparib) has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for the adjuvant treatment of patients with BRCA-mutated (BRCAm) HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer who have already been treated with chemotherapy either before or after surgery.
Today, the actress dropped a bombshell, telling the world she made the decision to have both of her breasts removed earlier this year. the decision, she says, came after discovering she had a high risk of developing breast cancer caused by a rare gene, the brca mutation, if you opened up the new york times, you saw her op-ed. i wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. but it's one i'm very happy i made. my chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87% to under 5%. i can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose...
Randomly check. >> neil: it gets spooky. if you learn you carry a marker you might stop life now. >> exactly. some people would take it further and say i don't care about anything and i'm going to let go and not worry about taking care of my house. >> neil: i worry about bosses, too, who get ahold of this information. >> that's true. insurance companies get this information and people would be driven to depression or panic or anxiety. >> neil: i want to know, though. >> you know, you would be surprised. some women come to my office that are -- i mean i bet my life they would test positive for ...