“Yay!” I wrote in a text to my boyfriend, mom, and sister, “My mammogram was clear!” Not that I was worried, but ever since testing positive for the BRCA 1 cancer gene mutation in the early summer, the doctors had been stepping up my screening, and I was scheduled…

Three years ago, I woke up with a knot in my stomach, knowing my life was about to change. Even though everyone I had told about the lump and biopsy said they knew it was going to be nothing, because it just didn’t make sense — I had only days earlier gotten clear…