Triple Negative Breast Cancer At 36, Life With The BRCA1 Gene

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Triple Negative Breast Cancer At 36, Life With The BRCA1 Gene
Meet Kim and Stephanie, 39-year-old fraternal twins. Diagnosed about three years ago, they are both survivors of triple-negative breast cancer and both have the BRCA1 gene. Only five percent of women have that gene, but those that do are much more likely to get breast cancer one day. The twist? They are adopted, and didn’t know that their bir…

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The Changing Face Of Breast Cancer

Friday, January 9th, 2009

The Changing Face Of Breast Cancer
This is a 5 minute clip of Deborah Singer’s Telly Award winning documentary, “The Changing Face of Breast Cancer.” Meet Kim and Melanie, two sisters in their 30’s who are battling breast cancer….

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TGen’s Breast & Ovarian Cancer Research

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

TGen\'s Breast & Ovarian Cancer Research
One in every seven women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Every 12 minutes breast cancer claims the life of another American woman. TGen’s research uses advanced technologies which rapidly measure the behavior of tumors at very high resolution, to identify the underlying reasons driving uncontrolled cancer cell growth with the goal of developing therapies to block d…

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