Actress Kara Tointon said it was a “no-brainer” for her to choose to have a double mastectomy and her fallopian tubes removed after finding out she was a carrier of the cancer-causing BRCA gene mutation.
The 42-year-old’s mum and aunt both died from breast cancer. She said there was a feeling that there must be a genetic link to women in their family developing the disease. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Kara says “her mum always believed she was going to die of cancer, but she didn’t know about the gene” and “didn’t want to know”.
