brca

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism)Initialism of Brotherhood (of) Railway Carmen of America.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of a number of genes and proteins associated with breast cancer, especially BRCA1 and BRCA2.

   “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.”