I first learned about family health history while interning with a nurse practitioner who specialized in cancer genetics. Cancer genetics is the study of how changes in genes can lead to cancer. At every visit, we collected patients’ personal and family health histories so we could assess their risk for inherited cancers. Still, it never occurred to me to ask about my own risk.
Like many young adults, I assumed being healthy now meant I’d always be healthy. How could that change?
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