One of the first things I did once the shock of my breast cancer diagnosis wore off was start to worry about what my diagnosis meant for my two sisters and my daughter. My doctor told me that their risk had increased by 50%.
How could I tell them that they had a 50% chance of getting cancer? With three first degree relatives to worry about and a fifty-fifty chance for breast cancer, it seemed inevitable that we would soon be a family with two or more breast cancer patients.
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