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Elizabeth Wurtzel (JTA/Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inHealth

‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies of breast cancer at age 52

by Emily Burack and JTA January 8, 2020
portrait of a middle-age blonde woman in a pink jacket
Posted inHealth

Learn more about BRCA gene, join a study — or do both

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 15, 2019
Breast cancer cells (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Overcoming breast cancer survivor’s guilt

Andrea Sobel by Andrea Sobel October 23, 2018October 22, 2018
pink breast cancer awareness ribbon
Posted inUncategorized

Upcoming events highlight breast cancer awareness

by J. Staff October 17, 2018October 17, 2018
Molly Daniels today
Posted inLocal Voice

Nearly excised from Book of Life, I wrote my own chapter

Molly Daniels today by Molly Daniels October 2, 2018October 3, 2018
Raleigh Zwerin, who found out in 2015 that she and her sister had the BRCA mutation, will speak on a panel about the gene that affects one in 40 Ashkenazi Jews. Seen here with her mother-in-law, Lonnie Zwerin.
Posted inHealth

At S.F. synagogue: BRCA, cancer and Ashkenazi genetics

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018September 17, 2018
Kevin Hoffman is hoisted in the air at the celebration of his bar mitzvah
(Photo/Cheryl Bigman)
Posted inJewish Life

This grief-stricken family got the chance to celebrate with ‘Wish Mitzvah’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 27, 2017November 28, 2017
Low-magnification micrograph of ovarian cancer cells. Ovarian cancer is particularly common among Ashkenazi Jews. (Photo/Wikimedia-Nephron CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

When cancer struck, my relationship to Judaism evolved

Marcia Renée Goodman by Marcia Renée Goodman October 2, 2017
Posted inCommunity

OFJCC to host panel on hereditary cancer risks

by J. Staff September 9, 2016February 11, 2017
Posted inUncategorized, Columns, Parenting

Children should know that everything is not always OK

by J. Correspondent September 21, 2012February 3, 2017

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