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Annabel is a 58 year old mother of one daughter and two sons.  At age 41 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and twelve years later she received her second diagnosis...

In 1974, at the young age of 41, my mother died of ovarian cancer.  Her younger sister had died at the age of 25 of breast cancer....

ALLEN is 52 years old, married, and the father of two daughters.  His mother died of breast cancer when she was 49 years old.  Allen was in Grade 7.  His sister died of ovarian cancer at the age of 54 ...

My story starts in 1991. Dad called a “family meeting”. We never had family meetings. Something was up. I was 18, my brother was 14 and my sister was 10. They told us that Mom, who was only 42, had advanced breast cancer....

Cancer has followed their family from one generation to the next, striking down women in the prime of their lives.   Now with the chance to have genetic testing, this family has found a way to fight back.  This is their story....

Over a cup of coffee on a snowy winter day Phyllis tells her story.  It’s not the story she ever thought she would be telling.  Last February Phyllis had surgery hoping to prevent cancer.  What she got instead was a cancer diagnosis....