revelation, inside the gene test that led to angelina jolie s double mastectomy. spy games, wigs, weapons, dark glasses, how russia says it nabbed a cia agent. inside the obama administration s horrible no good very bad week. plus, a teen athlete found dead inside a gym mat. after a picture surfaces, his parents are demanding answers. did you believe that? no. and you still don t believe it? no, i don t. and attention space geeks, buzz aldrin joins me live on why america should colonize mars very soon. here we go. hour two. i m brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me here. i want to begin this hour with some strange goings on in washington. on the justice department s
depends upon which mutation she has. she has one that gives her an 87% chance of getting breast cancer. i should put that in the past tense. she had. so she got her breast res moved. so now she s not 100% free of that risk but she has a little bit of breast tissue left under her arms because they always leave some. so now she has less than a 5% chance. if you have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer, you can talk to a genetic counselor, is this the right move for me. do we need to get tested, have a gene test or is it so rare that that is something that not all of us need to do to find out if we will get breast cancer. so great that she s come out like this but there s one down side that women will go bananas and everyone will want this test. doctors i talked to this morning said they fear that. why? because if you don t have a family history of breast cancer, there s no reason to suspect
someone that comes in when they are in their early 30s or 45, or so forth, this genetic test would alert me to make sure i keep an eye on him and if i find the cancer to treat him faster. it is a big thing coming out of john hopkins and the university of michigan and i think opens a lot of doors for people with prostate cancer, because now we are breaking the codes and getting into the genetic testings and going beyond the simple test of psa which is not that specific and is another tool we can use in our practice. eric: now go to the doctor and say i want the psa and besides the psa, a gene test? not necessarily but it an arrow in the quiver of early detection and we want to intervene, if we can. and the point, if you have a severe family history of prostate cancer and are on the young side there is a 3% chance you ll have the gene and the larger issue is, we re moving in
without the mutation. it is i terrifying possibility to consider both for woman who have tested positive and for women who haven t taken the test but fear what may be lurking in their dna. jolie said she was motivated to share her story by a desire to help women face that fear through empowering themselves with information. she wrote i chose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they may be living under the shadow of cancer. it is my hope that they too will be able to get gene test and that if they have a high risk, they too will know they have strong options. only women who carry genes with the brca mutation aren t the only beneficiaries of the test. so too the company that owns the exclusive rights to their genes. myriad genetics, a biotech company has owned the rights on it since 1998. you thought your body belonged