A Message about HBOC

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Listen to Lauren & Tiffany's story and learn more about HBOC - Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

Each year, more than 180,000 American women learn they have breast cancer.
Each year, more than 21,000 American women learn they have ovarian cancer.

For Approximately 5 to 10 percent of these women, their cancers were handed down from generation to generation. They have the hereditary form of the disease. Changes, called mutations, in their genes made them at extreme risk for developing both breast and ovarian cancer. Breast and ovarian cancer maybe linked together. Inherited alterations in the genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2 are responsible for many of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer cases- HBOC.