Isabel Teixeira underwent preventive surgery after genetic mapping
The actress Isabel Teixeira50 years old, he revealed in an interview with the newspaper The globe who have undergone a mastectomy – the removal of the breast – preventively.
The interpreter of Helena a Theirs for them (Globo), discovered, in 2020, through genetic mapping, that he has a syndrome called Li-Fraumeni, caused by changes in the TP53 gene, which predisposes to the development of several types of cancer. Isabel said her mother also had the same condition.
“My mother also had it, she died at 56, the victim of more than one cancer, and it all happened very quickly. Because of this syndrome they had my breasts removed. My life has changed a lot and in better. At first, when I received the news, I had a tremendous shock. I was scared. But then I got stronger”, the actress explained to the journalist Marcia Disitzer.
“I stopped smoking and drinking. I started running for an hour every day and taking even more care of my diet. Furthermore, my tests are always up to date, I undergo magnetic resonance imaging of my entire body and skull”She said.
“So when you ask me about aging, I say: I enter menopause with a sense of life and death. My desire is to continue here, with breasts, without breasts, with or without silicone, but with joy. This has become my modus operandi”he has declared.
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