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    Understanding BRCA: Living with the Breast Cancer Gene
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    Understanding BRCA: Living with the Breast Cancer Gene

    By Clarissa Foster

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    Do you have a close relative who has died from, or is experiencing, aggressive breast, ovarian or prostate cancer? Have they been tested for the BRCA gene mutation? Have you? At the age of 35 and following the death of her mother from ovarian cancer, Clarissa Foster was found to carry a harmful mutation in the BRCA2 gene which drastically increased her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. She searched for a book that would help her to understand the full extent of what it meant to carry a harmful mutation, the options available to her to lower her risk and, most importantly, how it would feel to undergo preventive surgery. Finding nothing that answered her needs she set about reading all the available medical literature and liaising with relevant medical professionals to answer her questions. This book is the result of that research and of the decision she took based on it - to have a full mastectomy and oophorectomy. Within the context of her own painful experience of family cancer and of elective surgery, Clarissa explains what the BRCA mutation is, what it signifies, what the individual's choices are and what the fall out can be in terms of a woman's body image, identity and sexuality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHammersmith Health Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2017
    ISBN9781781611210
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    Understanding BRCA: Living with the Breast Cancer Gene
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    Clarissa Foster

    Clarissa Foster is a qualified Human Biology teacher at FE level and an experienced writer for the pharmaceutical industry. She is also a health blogger and an ‘expert patient’ in relation to the BRCA mutation. To produce this book she has worked with Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, Alasdair Drake and Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Michael Taylor.

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