Meaning of BRCA | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Brotherhood (of) Railway Carmen of America.
   abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
2. Any of a number of genes and proteins associated with breast cancer, especially BRCA1 and BRCA2.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The writer David Samuels, a friend since childhood, said the cause was metastatic breast cancer, which in her case had resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. Ms. Wurtzel had a double⟳ mastectomy in 2015. After her diagnosis, she became an advocate for BRCA testing — something she had not had — and wrote about her cancer experience⟳ in The New York Times.”

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