BRCA NEWSWORTHY

‘Cancer-free’ baby born in London

Follow this link for more on this article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/09/uk.cancerfree.baby/

Friday, 1/9/09 a very expensive genetically engineered baby girl was born in London, England free of the BRCA gene mutation.

This has become a very controversial subject! If an embryo has the BRCA mutation, it is discarded & not implanted in the mother. This becomes controversial because not everyone who has the BRCA gene mutation develops cancer.

WOULD YOU DO GENETIC SCREENING FOR YOUR EMBRYOS IF YOU COULD?

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BRCA NEWSWORTHY

Breaking the Chain by Wendy Elliman

Follow this link for the entire awesome article!

http://www.hadassah.org/news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2008/08_Nov/medicine.asp

This past June, twins were born at the Hadassah Hospital in Israel without the BRCA gene mutation. Embryos free of the mutation were implanted in the mother enabling her to “break the breast cancer chain” in her family & give birth to BRCA free babies. Six other BRCA positive couples also had the genetically BRCA free embryos implanted using in-vitro fertilization treatment. One of these couples gave birth in September, & the other 5 couples are expecting soon!