REFERRAL USE ONLY Lauren Corduck and her father, Bob Cooperstein, have the BRCA1 gene mutation. She holds a photo of her grandmother, Frances, who died at 56 from breast cancer. (Photo: Sarah Bastille for Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center)

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