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A Family Mystery, a Cancer Breakthrough, and a Sea of Uncertainty
In January 2022, when I was 32, I spit into a tube for genetic testing. Rather than mail the tube off to 23andMe or another ancestry service, I FedExed my saliva to Ambry Genetics, a company that assesses hereditary cancer risk by looking for mutations on genes that are associated with malignancies.I underwent testing 20 years after my mother died of lung cancer at 49 and 18 years after my father died of prostate cancer at 50, and after multiple medical providers recommended that I see a genetic counselor. They were concerned not just by my parents’ fates but by my extended family’s medical history, which is riddled with cancer. On my father’s side, one of my aunts had breast cancer before t

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