Feb 19, 2020
“Going into surgery. Breast cancer is not bad. There is a 90% cure rate, and that includes women in North Dakota not getting the great care that I am. I have had days worse than breast cancer. 1987 was worse than breast cancer. Of the bad things that have happened to me, breast cancer does not make the top ten.”
All Ashkenazi Jewish women should be tested, because we have it at least 10 times the rate of the rest of the population: Up to one in 400 women is BRCA-positive, as opposed to one in 40 Ashkenazi Jews.
