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A complicated legacy

My paternal grandmother died of breast cancer when my dad was 16 years old. I am named for her as ...
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A father’s final gift

I first learned of my dad’s cancer during my first week of what was to be a 7-week trip backpacking ...
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Two phone calls that changed my life forever

In the 1970s, my parental grandmother, then a young woman, was treated for breast cancer and made a full recovery ...
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An ovarian cancer survivor’s story

One in forty??! So many of us... what a hard thing to digest! My own ovarian cancer was diagnosed almost ...
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Why I chose not to get tested

I first became aware of the existence of the BRCA genetic mutation when my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer ...
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