Jessica Queller, a Los Angeles-based TV writer, has written a book (Pretty is What Changes), detailing her response to a discovery she made four years ago: that her breasts were ticking cancer time bombs.
Queller, who underwent BRCA gene testing after her mother died of ovarian cancer, was told she was positive for the BRCA-1 gene, and had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer–as well as a 44% chance of developing even deadlier ovarian cancer. “The doctor told me the gold...
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