It was a Facebook post that caught Angela’s* attention. The 36-year-old had been thinking about genetic testing for years — ever since her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation more than a decade earlier. Her sister had encouraged the family to get tested — the BRCA1 and… Read More »
You Can’t Choose Your Genes
As told to Erica Rimlinger I was 41 and had spent a lovely day visiting with my mother at her home in Victoria, Canada. As she said goodnight and closed the guest room door, she lobbed a bomb: “Your brother has cancer. Good night!” Did she think I could just go to sleep after hearing… Read More »
