Over The Rainbow

New Work 

by 

Kim Barry

Rubix cube sculpture, colored square stickers

2013

One's Trash Is Another's Treasure

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* see bottom of post for words printed onto both strands

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* Note: Words Printed  above from May 13, 2013 Tribune Review article- 

Right Spiral-

Surgery From A1

"Women are becoming more

aware of the (genetic) testing

that's available, and doctors

are becoming more aware of

the risk factors that make a

woman prone to have a genetic

defect," Pahya said. "It's an

education process."

Genetic testing for breast

cancer has been available

for about a decade, but has

become popular only in the 

past five years, physicians 

said. They sais a blood test

costing roughly $3,000 identi-

fies the gene defect, which

can raise the lifetime risk of

breast cancer to 80 percent or

higher.

And while high profile cases

such as Jolie's encourage test-

ing, doctors said, new and bet-

ter reconstruction methods

make breast removal less 

traumatic.

"Not only do we have the abil-

ity to reconstruct the breast,

but we can save pretty much

all the skin," McGuire said.

"The breast looks essentially 

the same on the outside."

Amisha Upadhyay, 30, of

Regent Square, underwent a

voluntary double mastectomy

last week and doesn't have a 

regret, she said. Diagnosed

with a BRCA gene mutation,

she didn't want to be sur-

prised anymore after cancer

appeared in one of her breasts

when she was 29.

"I did not want to go through

that process again," Upadhyay

said. "If I can take a step to 

take control of this process. I 

will do that. It's a no-brainer."

Insurance companies gener-

ally provide partial payments

for mastectomies and recon-

struction for women who face

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strong genetic odds of breast

cancer but have not been

diagnosed with the disease,

industry, representatives said.

The federal Affordable Care

Act requires insurers to cover

genetic screening for women

with a known risk factor,  such

as a family history of breast

cancer.

For them especially, Jolie's

disclosure is a boon to aware-

ness, said Pat Halpin- Mur

phy, founder of the non-profit

Pennsylvania Breast Cancer

Coalition. Breast removal can

reduce their cancer risk to the 

single digits.

Halpin-Murphy doesn't

want the news to panic women

unnecessarily. She said BRCA

genes are cited in only 5 per-

cent of female breast cancer

cases. The rest appear to have

other causes.

"For those women who do

have a mother or a grand-

mother who died of breast

cancer, it is important that

they talk to their doctor about

the possibility of genetic test-

ing," said Halpin-Murphy, a 

breast-cancer survivor.

She and her sister did not

get genetic tests because they

don't have a family history of

the disease, she said.

At Allegheny General Hos-

pital in the North Side, Dr.

Shivani Duggal said she wor-

ries some women will misin-

terpret Jolie's message and

demand blood work regard-

less of their family histories and 

other risk factors.

"That would not be ideal,"

said Duggal, who works in

breast oncology. These tests 

are warranted in the high risk

populations."