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

By Paula K June 4, 2009 - 11:45am Rate This

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Paula recalls if she and her daughters have been tested for the BRCA1 gene that places a woman at an increased risk for ovarian cancer.

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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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