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News · 07-07-2026, 05:00 AM

In 2013, Angelina Jolie inspired a wave of testing for pathogenic variants of the gene BRCA1 by announcing that she carried a variant which left her at such high risk of breast cancer, she chose a preventive mastectomy.

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News Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,057	Estonian study highlights value of early genetic tests to identify hereditary cancer In 2013, Angelina Jolie inspired a wave of testing for pathogenic variants of the gene BRCA1 by announcing that she carried a variant which left her at such high risk of breast cancer, she chose a preventive mastectomy. More...