A BRCA Gene Test Saved My Life, and My Sister’s

Written By Rachel Kaufman

Three days after starting her new job at Healthline back in 2015, Sheryl Rose found out that her sister had breast cancer. A BRCA test informed her of her own risk of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer, and she made the decision to go ahead with a preventive oophorectomy and mastectomy. She wrote this story as she was recovering from surgery. Continue at Healthline.com.

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