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The Independent
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Watch: Actress Kara Tointon reveals she has undergone double mastectomy after cancer scare
Actress Kara Tointon has revealed that she has undergone a double mastectomy after learning that she carries the BRCA1 gene, which raises the risk of breast cancer. Sharing the news with her Instagram followers, the former Eastenders star she learned was at a 'greater risk' of the disease after taking a genetic test in 2018 after she lost her mother Carol to ovarian cancer. After having her two sons, the star revealed that last year she decided to go under the knife, as well as have both fallopian tubes removed as preventive measures. 'It wasn't an easy decision, but one I am very glad that I made and I can now with hindsight talk about it properly,' she said. Tointon said she wanted to share her own experience as hearing other women's stories 'helped me so much'.
Times
20-05-2025
- Health
- Times
Test can diagnose brain tumours in just two hours
British scientists have developed a 'revolutionary' genetic test which cuts the time it takes to diagnose brain tumours from eight weeks to two hours. Thousands of patients each year are set to benefit from the £450 test, which rapidly 'combines separate tests into one' to classify the type of tumour and provide an accurate prognosis on the same day patients have surgery. The method was developed by scientists at the University of Nottingham along with doctors at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. About 12,000 patients are diagnosed with brain tumours in the UK annually. It is one of the deadliest types of cancers, with many dying within one year. Patients with brain cancer undergo surgery to get a sample of the tumour, which is
