"Angelina Jolie Effect" Leaves Public With Inaccurate Knowledge of Breast Cancer Risk

安吉丽娜·朱莉反使公众陷入乳腺癌认识误区

A survey of 2500 Americans finds that despite many knowing about Jolie's preventive double mastectomy, most remain in the dark about breast cancer risk. Christie Nicholson reports

一项对2500名美国人的调查发现，尽管他们知道朱莉的双乳切除术能够预防乳腺癌，大部分人对乳腺癌的认识仍存在误区。

撰文/播音 克里斯提·尼科尔森（Christie Nicholson）

翻译 尹秋媛

Last spring, Angelina Jolie revealed that she’d had a preventive double mastectomy. The announcement was intended to increase awareness. But a study finds that the public’s understanding of breast cancer remains shallow and often inaccurate.

2013年初最火爆的新闻之一莫过于安吉丽娜·朱莉的双乳切除术。这一报道也是旨在提高人们的对乳腺癌的意识。但一项调查发现，大众对乳腺癌的认识依然浅显，不甚准确。

Researchers surveyed more than 2,500 men and women and found that a whopping three out of four knew Jolie’s story. But less than 10 percent could correctly answer questions about the BRCA gene mutation that Jolie carries. The survey is in the journal Genetics in Medicine.

研究人员通过对2500多名男女的调查发现，3/4的人知晓朱莉的事情。但只有不到10%的人能够准确的回答出有关朱莉携带的BRCA基因的突变的问题（BRCA：乳腺癌易感基因）。这项调查发表在《医学遗传学》（Genetics in Medicine.）杂志上。

Women with mutations in either BRCA1 and BRCA2 do have a five-fold increased risk of breast cancer compared with other women. But many did not know that these mutations are rare: far less than one percent of women have them.

携带BRCA1或BRCA2突变基因的女性，患乳腺癌的概率要比正常女性高5倍。只有大约不到1%的女性会携带这种突变，但清楚这一概率的人寥寥无几。

Most people also still don’t know that the BRCA mutations are only linked to five to 10 percent of all breast cancer cases. And that in terms of absolute numbers, many more women with no family history of the disease get diagnosed with breast cancer than do those with a history of breast cancer in the family.

BRCA突变导致的乳腺癌只占全部乳腺癌的5%到10%，因此从概率上来说，没有家庭乳腺癌病史的女性，诊断出乳腺癌的概率反而会更高呢——大多数人对这则信息的了解也很缺乏。

So kudos to Jolie for sharing her story. But doctors, media and patients all still need to do a better job with the whole breast cancer story.

朱莉能与分享她的故事，真是令人称赞！但医生、媒体、病人还应该对乳腺癌多做些功课。

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