Mother¡¯s cancer, clinical trial enable daughter to address BRCA1 mutation
When April Schweigert¡¯s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and then two years later ovarian cancer, her doctors suspected that this was not a coincidence.
¡°That¡¯s when all the red flags started flying. I remember being in the hospital room and her surgeons were immediately saying, ¡®You and your daughter need to be tested for BRCA mutation,¡¯¡± she says.
April and her mother both tested positive for mutations in BRCA1...
