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Mar 26, 202400:55:58Science & Medicine

Eleanor first interviewed Heather in 2018 . At that time, Heather was several years out from completing a prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy related to her BRCA1 mutation and was living in Singapore. Her children w...

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