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Breast Cancer Gene Tests for Girls: Too Soon?

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Posted: Thu., June 5, 2008, 07:47 am
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Topics: Breast Cancer, Mammogram, BRCA, breast cancer, diagnosed, Prevention, News
     

By TONI BRONZO
ABC News Medical Unit

For Ellyn Davidson, there was only one thing scarier than being diagnosed with breast cancer. It was the prospect that her 8-year-old daughter would one day receive the very same devastating news.

"At the time of my diagnosis, she definitely was one of my first thoughts, but it never occurred to me that I could be carrying the mutated BRCA gene," she recalls.

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