CURE Magazine

February 12, 2019

Parenting After Breast Cancer

Anyone who works with survivors knows that women with children face some of the biggest challenges when it comes to visualizing the future. This is be...

Marisol Rosas

January 22, 2019

Talking to My Son About Hereditary Cancer

I first found out I had a genetic mutation a few months after my second son was born and my older son was barely 3 years old. Having lost my mother to...

CURE Magazine

December 18, 2018

Podcast: A Long History of BRCA

Dating back to 1860 in Poland, three sisters’ journeys with the BRCA mutation isn’t exactly the claim to fame they were hoping for. Kathryn (Wi...

CURE Magazine

December 4, 2018

Love the Genes You’ve Got, But Get Them Tested, Too

I love fashion, and growing up, nothing was better than a good pair of jeans. They could be slimming, make you taller, hide your long torso with a rid...

CURE Magazine

November 27, 2018

Giving Tuesday: What You Need to Know

Giving Tuesday, an initiative launched in 2012, is a day celebrated globally with the goal of kicking off the charitable season through the power of s...

CURE Magazine

October 30, 2018

Discussing Hereditary Cancer Risk With Children

Genetic risk for cancer is random. For people who carry specific mutations, such as BRCA1 or BRCA2, there is a 50/50 chance they will pass that gene o...

CURE Magazine

October 23, 2018

Creating Mom’s Genes

One mother with a BRCA gene mutation has written a book to help parents discuss family health histories with their young children. When I was 27, my ...

Harvey Singer

October 16, 2018

Men to Boys: A Discussion of Hereditary Cancer with Your Children

In early 2008, I received a phone call from my sister informing me that after her third breast cancer diagnosis, she had decided to undergo genetic te...