Millions of people see cancer in their family and wonder, “Am I next? Are my children?”Advancements in cancer research over the last twenty years have made it possible for people to understand what their genes might be telling them about their risk for cancer. Confronting a family history of cancer can be overwhelming, but it can also be fashioned into one of the best health tools available in contemporary medicine.
Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theodora Ross has a deep and personal understanding of the power of genetic knowledge. She is a professor of internal medicine and director of the Cancer Genetics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, treating any patient with a family history of cancer. She is also a cancer survivor and carrier of a cancer mutation—the
BRCA1 mutation—and has a strong family history of cancer. She’s been living with the knowledge of the mutation for twelve years and tr...
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Millions of people see cancer in their family and wonder, “Am I next? Are my children?”Advancements in cancer research over the last twenty years have made it possible for people to understand what their genes might be telling them about their risk for cancer. Confronting a family history of cancer can be overwhelming, but it can also be fashioned into one of the best health tools available in contemporary medicine.
Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theodora Ross has a deep and personal understanding of the power of genetic knowledge. She is a professor of internal medicine and director of the Cancer Genetics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, treating any patient with a family history of cancer. She is also a cancer survivor and carrier of a cancer mutation—the
BRCA1 mutation—and has a strong family history of cancer. She’s been living with the knowledge of the mutation for twelve years and traveling through the complicated landscape of anxieties, losses, avoidance, and empowering choices.
Her revolutionary new book A CANCER IN THE FAMILY: Take Control of Your Genetic
Inheritance (Avery; February 2, 2016; hardcover; ebook), featuring a foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee, prize winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, is the first authoritative, go-to for people facing inherited cancer. With an empathy that can only come from inhabiting the worlds of doctor and patient simultaneously, she weaves together her personal story, accessible science, and
practical suggestions to help demystify the science behind cancer and gene mutations.
In A CANCER IN THE FAMILY, Ross shows how arming yourself with a complete family
cancer history can mean having one of the best health tools available in modern medicine at your disposal. It is “A valuable resource…[with] an upbeat message that learning about a cancer
mutation in one's family history is not about coping with bad news; it is about taking control and making choices…Highly recommended: exceptionally well-organized, authoritative, and
readable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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