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Author:

Queller, Jessica, 1969-

Title:

Pretty is what changes : impossible choices, the breast cancer gene, and how I defied my destiny / Jessica Queller.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Spiegel & Grau,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

259 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Queller, Jessica,--1969---Health.
Breast--Biography.--Patients--Biography.
Breast--Genetic aspects.--Genetic aspects.

Notes:

Includes a readers' guide. Previously published in hardcover: Spiegel & Grau, 2008.

Summary:

Queller, screenwriter for The Gilmore Girls, tells her story--from her mother's death from ovarian cancer and her positive testing for the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 to her decision to have a double mastectomy and remove her ovaries.

ISBN:

0385520417 (pbk.)
9780385520416 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2008004303

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