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Stand Up to Cancer: My Story

Joanna Rudnick | Posted 10.06.2008 | Living


Joanna Rudnick

When I was 27 years old, four words changed my life: "Positive for a deleterious mutation." Translated into English, that meant I was carrying the mutated gene that triggered the breast and ovarian cancer suffered by my mother, grandmother and great aunts.