From: Quest Diagnostics <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Take control with hereditary cancer screening Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:24:58 +0000 i Quest Diagnostics GI' Good Health Starts with KNOWING "Getting the information is key to—I believe—survival." Breast cancer screening provided Tara with the right information to make a decision that reduced her risk by 97%. Hear Tara's Story "According to my family history, I shouldn't even be here today," said wife and mother Tara Freundlich—whose mother, grandmother, and aunt all succumbed to cancer in their 40s and 50s. Thankfully, Tara chose to screen for BRCA, the breast cancer gene mutation. Hear Tara's story About hereditary breast cancer and BRCA Breast and ovarian cancers are cancers that affect women. Some of them are hereditary, passed down from generation to generation. Hereditary cancer can happen when a parent (male or female) has a gene mutation and passes it down to their son or daughter. The most common are BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations. • If women have the BRCA gene mutation, it increases their risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer. EFTA00696466