Every year, 7,800 women in the Czech Republic are diagnosed with breast cancer. Up to 400 of them are also carriers of a dangerous genetic predisposition BRCA1 and BRCA2, which increase the risk of breast cancer up to 10 times and ovarian cancer even 30 times! Early diagnosis of a serious genetic load, offered by VFN experts, significantly increases the chance of defeating cancer before breast or ovarian cancer ever develops. Since 1985, Pink October has been drawing attention to the need for prevention, a healthy lifestyle and monitoring one's own family history as essential ways to protect one's health and life.

Hereditary disposition means a mutation in one of the important genes. It can be inherited from one of the parents regardless of gender. Genes are among the most important genes associated with the development of oncological diseases BRCA1 or BRCA2. Every 750th person in Europe has this mutation in their genes. This means a lifetime significantly increased risk of developing cancer, tenfold for breast cancer and thirtyfold for ovarian cancer. The predisposition to cancer is inherited, not the cancer itself. The probability of transmission from parents to children is fifty percent.

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