Breast Cancer Awareness 2015: BRCA Gene Mutations
In May of 2013, famous actress, Angelina Jolie Pitt made headline news when she disclosed she had preventive elective double mastectomy. In March 2015 she disclosed she had both her ovaries and both fallopian tubes removed. She had an inherited mutation in BRCA1. Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes increases a women’s risk of developing…