“I had my ovaries removed when I found out I had a mutation”
In 2018 Marie Carmen, 46 year old neighbor San Roc district in Badalona passed ovarian removal surgery. He made this decision when he found out that he had BRCA1 gene mutation, which is closely related to development of cancer. Women with this genetic mutation have 80% chance have breast tumor And 40% have tumor in the ovaries.
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