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Jun 23, 2009 · Playlist. A year ago Morning Edition told you about Jessica Queller, a 39-year-old woman who had her breasts removed because she carries the breast cancer gene. The gene also carries a high...
Apr 1, 2008 · Playlist. Jessica Queller was a young writer working at her dream job on a hit television show in Los Angeles when her beautiful, vibrant mother died — of ovarian cancer. Queller took a...
Apr 7, 2009 · Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime.
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Jessica Queller is a TV writer/producer, author, and women’s health advocate. In 2003, while writing on Gilmore Girls, Jessica tested positive for the BRCA1 genetic mutation, otherwise known as The Breast Cancer Gene.
In the fall of 2001, she’d temporarily moved back East, and her mother, Stephanie, who had already survived breast cancer, was diagnosed with stage-3C ovarian cancer. Stephanie’s apartment was...
In 2004, a year after her mother died, Jessica took a cutting-edge genetic test for the BRCA1 mutation, otherwise known as “the breast cancer gene.” The test confirmed Jessica had inherited a mutation from her mom, which gave her up to a 90% chance of breast cancer and 50% chance of ovarian cancer.
May 17, 2023 · Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of 50 and ovarian cancer in her lifetime.
