Looking at the Odds of Hereditary Cancer

 I thought I’d create a visual to help put the statistics in perspective.

You can download a PDF of this graphic at www.MARKiX.net/genes

 

"An Individual Doesn't Get Cancer, a Family Does"

 "I had always assumed that this type of potentially life-saving information would be openly shared within the family. And that the individual’s doctors would alert other family members as well. Naively, I had believed the “duty to warn” applied to genetic cancer risks. But under HIPAA laws still stuck in the last century, nobody has to say a word."

That paragraph is from the story, "An Individual Doesn't Get Cancer, a Family Does," about how and why I became a volunteer at the nonprofit, FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered.

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