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Saturday, 18 May 2013

The Angelina Effect (Video)

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"The genes that you're born with don't change over the course of your lifetime, however, genetic testing techniques [does]..."

Susan Domchek, MD executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA in the Abramson Cancer Center, was interviewed on MSNBC about the news that actress Angelina Jolie carries the harmful BRCA 1 mutation, which led her to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer.



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