Having just returned from the Pacific Northwest, where I discussed one way to answer that question with many doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses, it occurred to me to blog more about it.
Risk is the probability of getting the disease, not your destiny; thus the value of intervention in higher risk women. We know that if you have a family history of breast cancer, you are more likely to get breast cancer, or no full term pregnancy, or have a beast biopsy. You know, we have discussed them in the blog. For some very young women with beast cancer and a family history of young primary relative with breast or ovarian cancer, the BRCA 1 & 2 test may be the answer, but for most (the other 80%), that gene test doesn't apply.
There is a way to put all these clinical factors together and personalize the answer for the more common kind of breast cancer by including your genetics. It is called the BREVAGen Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Test (or BREVAGen for short). It is the best clinically validated way to find the clearest answer to the question: what's my chance?
A cheek swab and 7 data points and you get an answer in 3 weeks.
The answer gives you a lifetime risk to help us know what kind of screening regimen is best for you and a 5-year risk to help us know if you might benefit from estrogen receptor blocker to reduce risk. Of course, anyone who reads the blog knows all the other healthy lifestyle changes that reduce a woman's chance of ever getting breast cancer.
We will blog more specifics about the test tomorrow. You may find more now at www.brevagen.com.
Together we can prevent 75,000 breast cancer cases each year!
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