預(yù)防性手術(shù)——攜帶致癌基因女性的福音
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BRCA1
BRCA2
cervix
uterus
pancreas
Sandra Cohen
Susan Domchek
the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
校稿 聆風(fēng)暮雪
翻譯 sunny_hnu
組長 _香陽洋洋_
Every year, 1,000,000 women around the world are found to have breast cancer. Almost 200,000 others are told they have ovarian cancer. The decisions for treatment are more difficult when the women have abnormal versions of 2 genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. The mutations in these genes can increase the…
每年，全世界有100萬女性罹患乳腺癌，大約有20萬女性被告知患有卵巢癌。 當(dāng)女性是BRCA1和BRCA2異常基因攜帶者時(shí)，治療就會更加困難。因?yàn)榛蛲蛔儠黾踊计渌┌Y的危險(xiǎn)，比如宮頸癌，子宮癌和胰腺癌。 桑德拉?科恩從未患過乳腺癌或者卵巢癌，但她是BRCA1和BRCA2突變基因攜帶者。因此，在她的母親和外祖母雙雙因這類癌癥去…