Cancer Time Bomb: How the BRCA Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs

Cancer Time Bomb: How the BRCA Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs

After finding out she tested positive for the BRCA genetic mutation, Cancer Time Bomb is Joelle Burnetteâ€™s non-fiction narrative about her prophylactic journey to becoming a â€œprevivorâ€ and free from breast and ovarian cancers.

This powerful story chronicles Joelleâ€™s 3-year odyssey as she justifies slicing away healthy parts of her body that have high odds of producing cancer. While pressured by surgeons and family to take drastic measures that would remove cancerâ€™s potential threat, she offers insight into what it feels like to face these significant decisions while not having cancer, and knowing thereâ€™s that miniscule chance the disease may never strike. Offering raw honesty, she reveals the darker side of choosing TRAM Flap reconstruction after a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy; she details the challenging, long recovery as she comes to terms with her choices and their impact on her as a daughter, woman, mother and wife.

Breast cancer had already impacted or taken the lives of several family members. Moreover, it was supposed to kill Joelleâ€™s sister in 1994, according to the doctors. Regardless, 32-year-old Colette suffered through powerful chemotherapy treatments and a painful bone marrow transplant to beat the odds and become a survivor. Thereafter, doctors had told the family, Colette likely would die if she ever got cancer again. When she was diagnosed and survived a second breast cancer more than a decade later, Coletteâ€™s cancer triggered a series of events leading to Joelleâ€™s own battle to remain cancer-free.

Colette battled cancer again while the health of the sistersâ€™ father deteriorated after years of diabetes. All the while, caring for everyone was Joelleâ€™s mother, Arlene, who played the strongest supportive role. Arlene remained by her daughterâ€™s side while Joelle carried out the proactive steps to avoid cancer and stay alive for her two young children.

BOOK BONUS: The authorâ€™s tips on how to prepare for a TRAM Flap procedure. What you may need to get set up for before, during and after your hospital stay.

Adult content.
Country USA
Author Joelle Burnette
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 291
PublicationDate 2012-04-03
ReleaseDate 2012-04-03

Country	USA
Author	Joelle Burnette
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	291
PublicationDate	2012-04-03
ReleaseDate	2012-04-03

Cancer Time Bomb: How the BRCA Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs

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