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Linkous-Gosper because of her family history, she had rejected the idea.
“There wasn’t that much in the media about it,” she said. “In hindsight, I wish I had.”
Faced now with a decision about how to treat existing cancer, she had the blood test. The results were painful: positive for the BRCA2 genetic mutation that is known to increase the cumulative lifetime risk of invasive breast cancer 10 to 20 times greater than average. A personal decision
Every year, 192,200 Americans will be diagnosed with breast cancer. More than 40,000 will die. In Virginia, 4,600 people will learn they have breast cancer this year.
Yet what was once a death sentence is now often a manageable condition: more than 2 million breast cancer survivors prove that point every day. Through early detection, improved treatments, and new approaches to prevention, life with breast cancer has changed.
Genetic testing, a relatively new approach to cancer risk management, is controversial. Preventive bilateral mastectomy is even more so.
“I wanted the best possible way of it never happening again,” said Linkous-Gosper.
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