Pretty is What Changes: Tough Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and Learning How to Live in the DNA Age

Pretty is What Changes

Tough Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and Learning How to Live in the DNA Age

By
Jessica Queller
Jessica Queller
2008 • 247 pages

Queller, screenwriter for The Gilmore Girls, tells her story--from her mother's death from ovarian cancer and her positive testing for the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 to her decision to have a double mastectomy and remove her ovaries.

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