{"id":1008,"date":"2016-11-11T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/elizabethetkin\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:55:43","slug":"ashkenazi-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/ashkenazi-risk-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashkenazi Risk Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Do you know your risk factors? Do you know your heritage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashkenazi Jews (both men and women) have a 1\/40 chance of carrying a mutation on the BRCA gene, regardless of family history. A mutation in the BRCA gene increases the possibility of developing breast cancer up to over 80% and ovarian cancer up to 40%. Shouldn\u2019t all Ashkenazi Jews be tested?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/78842\/testing-for-breast-cancer-gene-part-of-health-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/78842\/testing-for-breast-cancer-gene-part-of-health-program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Etkin-Kramer, M.D.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15,16,17,18],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ashkenazi-jewish","tag-brca","tag-breast-cancer","tag-genes","tag-ovarian-cancer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/Gynecology-Associates-of-South-Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}