Family History of Cancer? Yours Might Be Lying to You.
Kathy Baker's family looked like a textbook case for hereditary cancer. Her sister had breast cancer at 32. Her mother had three separate primary cancers. Her grandfather died of aggressive prostate cancer and his mother died of pancreatic cancer. Her oncologist recommended genetic testing in 2000 and she refused, because each of those cancers already had an explanation and none of the explanations was a gene.
She tested nine years later, in 2009, and came back positive for a BRCA1 mutation. Early ovarian cancer was found during the risk-reducing surgery that followed.
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