I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
"If I am genetically predisposed, and they have a preventive medication, they'll tell me right away".
I didn't want to leave anything to chance, so I made the decision there and then to have a preventive double mastectomy.
Angelina Jolie's decision to speak out about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy was intended to highlight the terrible risks of breast cancer.
Jolie stunned the world with a New York Times Op-Ed article explaining why she decided to have a preventive double mastectomy once she learned that she has the BRCA1 gene, which spikes the risk for breast and ovarian cancers.
Alarmed by these developments, Ms. Fink, a 39-year-old mother of two who lives in Fairfield, Conn., decided to have a preventive double mastectomy, fearing that she would also contract breast cancer and might die from it.
Nor is she the first to have a preventive double mastectomy: Sharon Osbourne (not an actress but very much a woman in the public eye) announced only last year that she had one after discovering, as she told Hello! magazine, that she had "the breast-cancer gene".
But because of a recent cover article I wrote for the magazine, "Our Feel-Good War Against Breast Cancer," I've been deluged by questions about her decision, which she revealed in an op-ed yesterday, to have a preventive double mastectomy.
Moreover, 2 weekly sessions of anodal tDCS may have a preventive effect in patients.
Our pilot therapeutic study suggests that excitatory anodal tDCS could have a preventive anti-migraine effect.
This study was designed in order to investigate whether sun dried apricots have a preventive effect on the experimental cataract model formed by sodium selenite in rats.
