By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Camille Grammer is undergoing annual aggressive cancer screening tests because she is a carrier of a genetic mutation of several forms of the disease and believes that early detection is the best prevention, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"I am a carrier of the BRCA 2 gene and I had myself tested after my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer several years ago," Grammer tells Breaking Celebrity Newsexclusively. "I'm currently undergoing my yearly cancer screening tests because I believe that early detection is the best prevention. I will be having my mammogram, colonoscopy and endoscopy in the next week. I have already had my annual blood tests and tissue samples, and so far, everything looks good."

According to Cancer.org, the BRCA 2 gene isknown as "a tumor suppressor...In normal cells, BRCA1 and BRCA2 help ensure the stability of the cell’s genetic material (DNA) and help prevent uncontrolled cell growth. Mutation of these genes has been linked to the development of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. A woman’s lifetime risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer is greatly increased if she inherits a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA. Such a woman has an increased risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer at an early age (before menopause) and often has multiple, close family members who have been diagnosed with these diseases."

Grammer's mother was diagnosed with stage two ovarian cancer several years ago, and the blond beauty tells Breaking Celebrity News, "We got lucky with my mom because it was caught rather early, at stage two. She had a hysterectomy, and did very well. She has since gotten a different form of bladder and kidney cancer,