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Cancer Free, But Opting For A Mastectomy: A BRCA Gene Carrier Shares Her Story

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff


The 2007 story of 33-year old Deborah Lindner, who underwent a preventive mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA gene, recently published in The New York Times.

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