This gene does not make breasts ticking time bombs as this young woman thought.
"As Dr. Mehra Golshan, Director of Breast Surgical Services at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston explained it, "For women who know in advance there is a good chance they will develop breast cancer sooner or later, having prophylactic surgery can make sense. It lowers the risk of developing cancer by more than 90 percent." "There are no such individuals, and there's no way to measure how much an individual's risk is reduced.
"In one recent study which followed nearly 2,500 women who carried one of the two dangerous gene variants, having a double mastectomy did appear to lower their risk of breast cancer. None of the women who opted to have their breasts or ovaries removed were diagnosed with breast cancer in the three decades they were followed, while 7 percent of those who chose not to have surgery were. "Seven percent is significantly different that 90 percent. This is how government agents manipulate statistics to manipulate people.
Preventive mastectomy at mercola.com.



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