Fortunately, advances in genetics bring news such as these that open a door to hope for many inherited diseases. A woman will soon give birth to the first baby in the United Kingdom to whom doctors give a total guarantee that will be free from hereditary breast cancer thanks to a pre-implantation diagnosis.
Medical experts removed from the woman's embryos a hereditary gene that would have left the creature with more than 50% chance of developing that type of cancer, since all the women of the father's family had suffered the disease during the last 3 generations.
The couple produced 11 embryos, 5 of which proved to be free of the gene, and 2 of the latter were implanted in the woman's uterus. You are now in your 14th week of pregnancy.
Not all cases of breast cancer can be predicted, only in the 5% incidence of this disease, when attributed to certain detectable genes in embryos.
Even so, according to doctors thousands of cases of hereditary breast cancer could be avoided by applying this pre-implantation diagnostic technique.
Unlike other parents who minimize the importance of their children inheriting birth defects, the young British woman who decided to undergo this technique with the embryos explained that she wanted to totally protect her offspring from the high possibility of suffering from this type of cancer.
Personally, I think it is the same option that I would choose for that risk. It still seems like a miracle or if we want one of the greatest advances in science that we can avoid children a defect or a safe or practically safe disease.
