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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Queller, screenwriter for The Gilmore Girls, tells her story--from her mother's death from ovarian cancer and her postive testing for the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 to her decision to have a double mastectomy and remove her ovaries.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her family's experience to frame a larger story about the so-called...
Author
Series
Mayborn literary nonfiction volume 9
Publisher
University of North Texas Press, Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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After learning that she inherited a BRCA2 genetic mutation that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, Kim Horner's doctors urged her to consider having a double mastectomy. But how do you decide whether to have a surgery to remove your breasts to reduce your risk for a disease you don't have and may never get? Horner shares her struggle to answer that question in Probably Someday Cancer. The mother of a one-year-old boy, she wanted to...
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