People need to realize that you can inherit genes from your father’s side that cause female cancers like breast cancer and ovarian,” says Dr. Elisa Port, a breast surgeon a ...

With the gene mutation, she had a 60-90% chance of getting breast cancer ... right and still got cancer, it says, maybe I should get tested.” Courtesy Jill Martin ...

Jill Martin had always been keenly aware of her mother, Georgette’s family history of breast cancer. The 77-year-old overcame breast cancer in her 40s, and Martin’s maternal grandmother ...

Brian Doben/@briandoben Jill Martin Diagnosed with aggressive stage 2b breast cancer, she spent the next year undergoing a double mastectomy, four months of grueling chemotherapy, radiation, ...