Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam. — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the timing. For younger women, we might wait until they have found a life partner, or until after childbearing. Older women who find out they carry a mutation have unwittingly escaped a large percentage of their risk, and therefore,… — Kristi Funk Copy Share
Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
About 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
The Angelina Effect refers to the fact that a powerful, beautiful, well-respected and world-renowned woman unabashedly revealed private medical details about a gene mutation… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
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