Meet the 'previvors': Women who have an increased risk for cancer

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The stories of two women who are cancer previvors. Both Jordyn and Anne had family members with breast cancer. Both got genetic testing and found out they too carried genes that gave them very high odds of getting cancer too. Both of these women decided to deal with the risk preemptively by having surgery.

It was a call Anne Jisca Meyer had been dreading.

Her sister Emm had breast cancer and underwent genetic testing to determine if it was related to a hereditary mutation. 

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She called Jisca Meyer to let her know that she had tested positive for PALB2, a genetic mutation

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