In this video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), watch genetic counselor, Joyce Turner, share an incredible and revealing overview of BRCA genes and how these gene mutations can be related to breast and ovarian cancer development. As you can hear Turner explain, BRCA stands for breast cancer and without treatment, a woman who is a BRCA1 or a BRCA2 mutation carrier is seven times more likely to develop breast cancer and thirty more times to develop ovarian cancer before the age of 70.
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