“Knowledge of oneself is paramount to long term health. Theodora Ross candidly and expertly shows us, through personal and inspiring stories, what that means when the knowledge demonstrates a genetic predisposition to cancer. An important and eye-opening book.”
-David B. Agus, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California, and author of The End of Illness and The Lucky Years“Dr. Ross’ wonderful book has changed the way I practice. It should be mandatory reading for every medical student and primary care provider.”
–Marshall A.Wolf, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School“What would you do if the tables were turned and you became the patient instead of the doctor? This is exactly what happened to breast oncologist and researcher, Dr. Theo Ross . . . A must read for anyone with cancer in their family.”
—Heather Hampel, MS, LGC, Clinical Cancer Genetics Program professor at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center“Ross guides us through this landscape with astonishing personal honesty, clear thinking, openness, and persistence. She explains – with an empathy that can only arise from inhabiting the worlds of doctor and patient simultaneously – how all of us (professionals and laypeople alike) with or without a family history of cancer, need help understanding genetics.”
—From the foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjeee, MD, PhD, author of The Emperor of All Maladies