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    posted 10/06/2008, comments (2)

    Interview: Gossip Girl's Jessica Queller On Her Mother's Cancer and Her Own Double Mastectomy

      Nikolai Hamel: You've written for several popular television shows, including Felicity, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, and now, Gossip Girl. With such a creative background, you easily could have written a fictional account of your story. How did you decide to write a non-fiction account? Or did you just know that you had to tell your... Read moreChevron
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    posted 04/05/2008, comments (3)

    Reactions to Pretty Is What Changes: Save Your Shock and Horror for Cancer, Not Its Treatment

    Jessica Queller’s new book, Pretty is What Changes, inspired posts on this site by both me and my fellow blogger, Laura Zigman. Queller writes about undergoing genetic testing that revealed she carries the BRCA gene, which put her at a nearly 90% risk of getting breast cancer. She chose to lower that risk dramatically by having a... Read moreChevron
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    Pretty is What Changes - Jessica Queller's Decision to Have a Prophylactic Double Mastectomy

    Early yesterday morning, I got an email from one of the heads of my company (big, burly guy) saying I had to listen to this radio broadcast about breast cancer and young women.   It's the NPR interview of Jessica Queller, the author of Pretty is What Changes, a book that came out yesterday and chronicles Jessica's decision to have a... Read moreChevron
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