It was more than 11 years ago that my patient Angelina Jolie – a carrier of the BRCA gene mutation – provided me with an ...

Testing all women for the "Angelina Jolie gene", even if not considered ... Mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 can impair the body's ability to repair damage to DNA in its cells.

Angelina Jolie has tons of impressive ink ... The A-lister wrote about the BRCA1 gene in The New York Times and how it ...

The Hollywood actress and mum-of-six has revealed that doctors told her that she carried the ‘faulty gene’ BRCA1, meaning there was an 87% chance of her contracting breast cancer and a 50% risk of ...

Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative ... And it’s normally due to faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. “Around one in a thousand of the population has the faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 ...

Angelina Jolie has suggested that she has never been taken seriously as an artist because the focus has been on her celebrity status.

When Angelina Jolie Pitt started talking about cancer ... In May 2013, Jolie Pitt wrote in a New York Times op-ed that she had a BRCA1 mutation that, along with her family history, put her ...

In 2013, Angelina Jolie revealed she'd had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with a BRCA 1 gene mutation The first two days of recovery were the worst: having to get my mum to do ...

Angelina Jolie put a spotlight on the issue when she underwent an elective mastectomy in 2013 after discovering that she had the BRCA1 gene mutation, and shared her story as an op-ed in the New ...