Cover of Talk To The Head Scarf

Book 2011

Talk To The Head Scarf

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Publisher
Hodder Headline Ireland
Published
2011
  • Ireland, biography
  • Cancer, patients, biography
  • Cancer, patients, rehabilitation
  • Health
  • Cancer
  • Biography
  • Patients
  • Rehabilitation

Imagine you're thirty-two, married, with two little children and you find out you're carrying a deadly cancer gene?That was me in August 2005. I discovered I had the gene Brca1, which means a 50% chance of developing ovarian and an 85% chance of developing breast cancer. I had two options - wait for the big bad cancer wolf or have radical surgery.