Tag Archive: BRCA2

The Angelina Jolie Effect: What Difference Did It Make?

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Seems I missed this study published late last year in Genetics In Medicine, a scientific analysis of the Angelina Jolie effect. You will recall that back in May 2013, Angelina Jolie revealed in… Continue reading →

Weekly Round Up: The Survivors Day Edition

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading →

Weekly Round Up – The Angelina Jolie Edition

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading →

Angelina Jolie Tackles Cancer Head-On

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My Twitter stream this morning was filled with references to Angelina Jolie’s “medical choice” so I clicked on one of the many links to the New York Times Op Ed piece by the… Continue reading →

Weekly Round Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading →

Launch of new guide to family history of breast cancer

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The UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer has launched a definitive guide for people with an increased risk of developing breast cancer due to their family history. The guide provides, for the first time, information on… Continue reading →

Are we too biased toward prophylactic mastectomy?

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I have no idea what it must be like to have to make the decision to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy, the name given to the  surgery that may be done to remove one… Continue reading →

New hope for women with hereditary breast cancer

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A small clinical trial of a new drug designed to treat hereditary breast cancer has achieved promising results, UK scientists have said. The scientists recruited 54 women from the UK, Europe, the US… Continue reading →