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  Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

  by Jessica Queller

  A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live? Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian... (more)