Lizzie Stark - Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree

Saturday, October 25, 2014 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Being informed about your genetic inheritance can bring peace of mind—or difficult decisions. If you’re a woman in a family predisposed to BRCA mutations, as Stark, a journalist, founder of Fringe, and author of Leaving Mundania is, you may need to consider prophylactic surgery. Starting with her own relatives’ all-too-intimate experience with breast cancer, Stark delves into the history and science of the disease, plastic surgery, mammograms, and the patenting of human genomes. (Chicago Review)

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