cancer gene. she chose this company, myriad, to do the test because she like every other woman in the united states had no choice. this company retains exclusive rights to all testing and research for this breast cancer gene. that s right a. company holds a patent on your genes and today the u.s. supreme court could decide on whether it should have that right. george washington university professor and constitutional lawyer jonathan turley is here. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. at the crux of this case, could human genes be patentt? the. reporter: the reading of this case has extreme patent laws. the supreme court says you can patent everything under the sun man makes. genes are made by man t. company said they spent a lot of money isolating this gene sequence to allow people like jolie to get the benefits from it.
news to bring attention to sexual violence in war zones. the next month, she showed up on the red carpet wearing a long black cape. she writes, i wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy but it is one i m very happy that i made. i can tell my children that they don t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. the co-anchor of morning star has not been tested for the breast cancer gene but decided to have a double mastectomy. she hadn t shared her news until this morning and says jolie s openness prompted her to go public with her decision. she joins me now along with dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, how common is a double mastectomy in cases like hers? it s becoming increasingly common, no question about it. as the testing has certainly gotten more sophisticated and typically the scenario is you go through genetic counseling first so you have some idea when you get the test results back what they re going to mean, then you go throu
higher risk for genetic based breast cancer and i was so young in my diagnosis that i have that genetic test as well. and i ended up being diagnosed as bracket 2 positive. angelina was bracket 1. that puts us between a 40% and 85% chance of getting breast cancer sometime during our lifetime and ovarian cancer as well. the closer you get to 50, the more likely the chances go up. so my breast cancer was very early stage. it was 1a. and i was recommended initially to just have a lumpectomy and radiation. the closer you get to 50, the more likely the chances go up. so my breast cancer was very early stage. it was 1a. and i was recommended initially to just have a lumpectomy and radiation. once i was diagnosed with the breast cancer gene, i went as far as angelina did as well and had a partially prophylactic double mastectomy. i had breast cancer in one breast but didn t want to wait
simpson did not testify during his 1995 murder trial or the 2008 case that landed him in prison. jodi arias back in court today to begin the sentencing phase of other trial before jurors can consider imposing the death penalty they must answer a key question. was arias cruel when she killed ex-boyfriend travis alexander. arias is now out of a prison psychiatric ward and sent her first tweet. any donations to my family or me or made only at jodi arias is innocent.com. any other source asking for donations is fraudulent. thank you. angelina jolie is receiving overwhelming support after the revelation that she carries a breast cancer gene and underwent breast removal surgery. her biggest supporter is her partner of eight years, brad pitt. he told usa today she could have stayed private about it and
the co-anchor of morning star has not been tested for the breast cancer gene but decided to have a double mastectomy. she hadn t shared her news until this morning and says jolie s openness prompted her to go public with her decision. she joins me now along with dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, how common is a double mastectomy in cases like hers? it s becoming increasingly common, no question about it. as the testing has certainly gotten more sophisticated and typically the scenario is you go through genetic counseling first so you have some idea when you get the test results back what they re going to mean, then you go through it again, as well as psychological counseling. if the decision is to go ahead and do the operation to remove both breasts, it s usually done fairly quickly, within a month