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“I found out when I was 25, my sister found out when she was 22, that we both carried that same genetic mutation,” she says. They had an increased lifetime risk of up to 75% for breast cancer, so as a result, Brooklyn began getting annual breast cancer screening mammograms with her care team at Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA.
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