Friday, December 04, 2009

Blood Matters

From : Finacial Times

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Twelve years after her mother died of breast cancer.









37-year-old Gessen – a war correspondent and mother at the time – discovered that she had inherited the “genetic mutation that kills women early”. Pursuing the cancer-inducing gene’s lethal path through her Jewish ancestry, Gessen confronts her own massively increased risk (to about 87 per cent) of breast or ovarian cancer

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