How to Use BRCA in a Sentence

BRCA

noun

• Three months prior, the actress, 43, had a clear mammogram and had recently tested negative for the BRCA gene.
  — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024
• Frenzel believes knowing her BRCA status helped save her life.
  — Korin Miller, Woman's Day, 3 Dec. 2020
• When trying to find my own insurance, BRCA elevated the stakes.
  — Julia Bailen, SPIN, 6 July 2023
• Get informed about genetic testing for breast cancer and get tested for the BRCA (breast cancer gene) and other gene mutations that carry a higher risk for breast cancer.
  — Clare Dougherty, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
• But after receiving genetic testing for the BRCA gene — the gene linked to a higher chance of developing breast cancer — and any mutations, her breast cancer was detected.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
• Breast cancer is less commonly diagnosed in men, and all men with this diagnosis should consider BRCA testing.
  — Amy Comander Md, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• Her cancer had gone undetected until BRCA gene testing prompted doctors to do more extensive scans.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Such testing could reveal additional genetic factors, other than BRCA, that might be contributing to a higher risk of breast cancer.
  — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
• But having dense breast tissue alone doesn’t clear this benchmark in the absence of other compounding risk factors, such as BRCA gene mutations, or direct family history of breast cancer.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 23 Jan. 2024
• Her project involves studying how non-cancerous tissues taken from patients with a BRCA mutation respond to certain cancer-treatment drugs.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• But though breast cancer is associated with women, the BRCA genes are inherited from both biological parents.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024