This gene normally helps repair damaged DNA, but its mutated form results in a lifetime 50 to 80
percent chance of breast cancer and a 40 to 50 percent chance of ovarian cancer.
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80
percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
Not exact matches
But a larger group
of studies over the past ten years has proved that women who breastfeed their children past the age
of two years actually reduce their
chances of contracting pre-menopausal
breast cancer by 30
percent.
Women with one
of the mutations have a 45
percent to 85
percent chance of developing
breast cancer by age 70, 23andMe said.
Overall, the two groups had statistically indistinguishable rates
of colon
cancer and heart disease and just a marginal reduction in
breast cancer risk
of 9
percent, although
chance could have accounted for that outcome.
Doctors would tell women if get they had that gene they had a 99
percent chance of getting
breast cancer.
Whereas only 5 to 10
percent of breast cancer patients have a mutation at one
of these genes, those having it face a 40 to 85
percent chance they will develop
breast cancer at some point in their lives.
And the
chances of misdiagnosis with the tests is slim also, with a 100
percent accuracy rate in detecting the differences between Alzheimer's and MCI, MS (Multiple Sclerosis), and
breast cancer, and a 98
percent detection rate for early Parkinson's.
What's more, the
chance of getting
breast cancer by age 33, even with a BRCA mutation, is less than 3
percent.
After adjusting for common factors that influence
breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39
percent increased
chance of developing subsequent
breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.
Women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive but were referred for a
breast biopsy had a 76
percent increased
chance of developing subsequent
breast cancer compared with women with a true - negative result.
Breakthrough Strategies to Lower Your Risk... and Increase Your
Chances of Recovery
Breast cancer incidence has risen by 60
percent in the last fifty years.
Each gram
of mushroom reduces
chance of breast cancer by several
percent, says meta - study The meta - study does make the theory that mushrooms offer protection against
breast cancer a little more likely.
Research shows that the
chances of developing a
breast cancer tumor drop by around 37
percent in women under 50 who drank tea at least three times daily.
Regular physical activity has been shown to decrease the likelihood
of developing
breast cancer, as well as decreasing your
chances of dying from it by 50
percent, once diagnosed.
Angelina Jolie who played the «good witch» in and as Maleficentwent under the knife for a preventative double mastectomy after she was diagnosed
of having an 87 %
percent chance of developing
breast cancer owing to her genetic history.