Beyond my own family history, as a Black woman, I knew I couldn't miss a single mammogram.
It began on an unremarkable evening in April 2010. I was preparing dinner for my family when I got the call.The physician from the St. Louis Breast & Cancer Institute said, 'Mrs. Keys, you have ductal carcinoma in situ .'As a licensed practical nurse, I knew what that meant.
My twin Vanessa underwent the same genetic testing in early 2011, and it revealed that she, too, was positive for the BRCA2 mutation.Given this information and our family history, she decided to have preventive surgery—a hysterectomy to decrease her risk of developing breast cancer and eliminate her chance of developing ovarian cancer.However, she wanted to keep her breasts, too, and decided against any additional surgeries.
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