Dr Kat Arney
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36 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2013
last heard May 2013
Dr Kat Arney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are various computer programmes where you put all sorts of things in.
You put genetic information, family history, all sorts of stuff in and it spits a number out, which is why she's probably got this very precise sounding number.
By having her breasts removed, you remove most of the tissue that could become cancerous.
She still says that she has around a 5% chance of developing breast cancer, which is about half of that of an average woman in the general population.
But by having this operation, she's got rid of most significant amount of the kind of tissue that could become cancerous and cause her a problem.
We know it is actually more common in certain groups, but certainly if you carry this faulty gene, you do have a greatly increased risk of developing the disease.
So for breast cancer, your risk of developing breast cancer goes from about 12% on average to between 50% to 80%, or even more, depending on exactly the kind of fault you have and a number of other factors, for example, the other genetic variations that you have on top of that too.
In a lot of African countries where women have children younger, they have more children and they breastfeed them for longer, that does decrease breast cancer risk.
So rates of breast cancer are relatively low.
But unfortunately, there are many other types of cancer that tend to affect people
in those countries, more things like cervical cancer and cancers linked to infectious diseases.
There are various computer programmes where you put all sorts of things in.
You put genetic information, family history, all sorts of stuff in, and it spits a number out, which is why she's probably got this very precise-sounding number.
By having her breasts removed, you remove most of the tissue that could become cancerous.
She still says that she has around a 5% chance of developing breast cancer, which is about half of that of an average woman in the general population.
But by having this operation, she's got rid of most significant amount of the kind of tissue that could become cancerous and cause her a problem.
We know it is actually more common in certain groups, but certainly if you carry this faulty gene, you do have a greatly increased risk of developing the disease.
So for breast cancer, your risk of developing breast cancer goes from about 12% on average to between 50% to 80%.
or even more, depending on exactly the kind of fault you have and a number of other factors, for example, the other genetic variations that you have on top of that too.
Here's Katani again.
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