Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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Well, we asked Dr Kat Arney, a senior science manager at the charity Cancer Research UK.
That's right, but it was the presence of a certain mutated gene that stacked the odds against Angelina and made her take this drastic step.
The BRCA1 gene is present in everyone, but mutates in roughly one in every 1,000 women and then can be a trigger for both breast and ovarian cancer.
However, if a parent has the mutated gene, and Angelina's mother did, she died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56, then their children have a one in two chance of inheriting it.
Katani explains.
Yes, a woman in the UK has a 12% chance of getting breast cancer during her lifetime.
So it's a lifetime risk.
And a third of all incidences of breast cancer occur in women aged over 70.
The chance of a woman developing breast cancer before the age of 30 is very slim, one in 2,000.
That goes up to one in 50 before the age of 50, and one in 13 before the age of 70.
It does.
The UK statistics, though, are similar to those in the United States and in other Western European countries.
The lowest breast cancer rates are in Middle and Eastern Africa, where women are four times less likely to be diagnosed with the disease than women in the UK.
Well, frankly, the likelihood is high.
Here's the bad news and a little about what to do about it.
I'm fairly sure she did mean Romanians, Tim.
On any question, she actually applied these numbers to both Romanians and Bulgarians, but the figures she quotes are in fact just related to Romanians.
Now first, let's look at the population figures.
68,000 is actually a very low estimate for the number of Romanians who are in the UK already.
It is just an estimate, but the Office for National Statistics annual figures suggest there are around 93,000.
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