Paula Shares If She Has Been Tested For The BRCA1 Gene (VIDEO)

Paula:
I had finished my chemotherapy--the first round in, I want to say June of 2005, and that’s when I went for the genetic testing and found that I was positive for the BRCA1 gene. And my daughters both went, and they both found out they were positive for the genetic mutation.

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