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By Frances Merrill, as told to Jo Cavallo  / October 10, 2024

Coping With the Risk of Hereditary Cancer

Three years ago, it had become clear that I needed to be tested for the BRCA1/2 mutation. I knew my family history of cancer was not good. My paternal grandmother died of breast cancer when she was just 41, and her mother had likely died of cervical cancer when she was in her 50s. More recently,...