Surviving, and Thriving, as a Dad With a Cancer Gene Mutation
Men can inherit and pass on gene mutations too.
Men can inherit and pass on gene mutations too. Read this story of how one father learned of his own BRCA2 mutation and what he is doing to manage his health and increased risk of cancer, while supporting his three children who all inherited his mutation as well.
https://www.facingourrisk.org/blog/surviving-and-thriving-as-a-dad-with-a-cancer-gene-mutation
Patient Advocate Faces Thyroid Cancer Decades After Surviving Breast Cancer
September 5th 2023‘I feel like I've gone to continuing education classes as an advocate through reentering the health system in the cancer space,’ FORCE executive director and founder Sue Friedman, a breast cancer survivor who recently received a diagnosis of thyroid cancer, tells CURE.
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Stepping Up Again for Hereditary Cancer Prevention
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