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What Are The Test For Breast Cancer?
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A provocative essay in the New York Times by journalist Aliyah Baruchin has me thinking over, once again, a question that I occasionally grapple with: If there’s no family history, but you get breast cancer, especially at an early age--43 for Baruchin, 41 for me--should you be tested for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation? The question is especially troubling if, like Baruchin and myself, you are of Askenazic Jewish descent, a group that has a disproportionately large number of women with the...
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