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fighting chance; After testing positive for the breast cancer gene, Amy Cohen grapples with a radical decision that could save her life and, in the process, unearths a strength she never knew existed.
Byline: Amy Cohen
I have always been a fearful person. As a child I wore a life preserver to dangle my feet in the shallow end. As a teenager, I worried that African killer bees might find their way to America. And as an adult, I once found a black spot on my leg and immediately thought, This is cancer!-only to discover it was newsprint. I barely considered myself strong enough for a root canal, let alone the diagnosis I was given at age 38, when a blood test confirmed that I was positive for a mutation on the BRCA1 gene, often called the breast cancer gene.
The women in my family have a history of breast cancer, which is why I'd gone the ...
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