A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance Audiobook (Free)
- Marguerite Gavin
- 6 h 59 min
- Gildan Media
- 2016-08-01
Summary:
Oncologist and cancers gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for folks facing a genetic predisposition for malignancy
There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. However despite advanced trained in malignancy genetics and many years of practicing medication, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain if the background of malignancies in her family members was simple bad luck or a sign that these were carriers of a about A Cancers in the Family members: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance cancer-causing hereditary mutation. After that she was diagnosed with melanoma, and for someone with a dark tone, melanoma produced no feeling. It turned out there was a genetic factor at work.
Using her own family’s story, the latest science of cancer genetics, and her encounter as a exercising physician, Ross displays listeners how exactly to spot the patterns of inherited cancer, ways to get tested for cancer-causing genes, and how to proceed if you have one. Using a foreword by Siddartha Mukherjee, reward winning writer of The Emperor of most Maladies, this would be the first authoritative, go-to for folks facing inherited cancers, this reserve empowers listeners to face their genetic heritage without fear and to make decisions which will maintain them and their families healthy.
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