Random House, Inc.
This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains in a clear and steady manner the myths and realities of "the breast cancer genes." It lays out all the options in easy-to-follow, compassionate language. It will help women and men decide if they want to pursue genetic testing, guide them in interpreting their test results, and give them a sound basis for making the life-saving decisions required to manage their risks.
Authors Joi Morris and Dr. Ora Karp Gordon cover all of the latest medical options, including genetic testing for breast cancer risk, breast cancer surveillance, assessing risk, mastectomy and breast reconstruction techniques, ovarian cancer surveillance, surgery, managing menopause, and cancer risks in men who carry mutations on BRCA genes. Along the way, Joi tells her personal story and that of other women and men who have made the gut-wrenching decisions required to survive in this world of astronomical risk. At the age of forty-two, Joi learned that she has a genetic mutation on a gene known as BRCA2. The test results meant that her risk of getting breast cancer could be as high as 84 percent by age seventy, and that her risk for ovarian cancer was also high. Compounding her risk was the fact that her mother had developed breast cancer in her forties. After much research and consultation, the result of which is this book, Joi made the difficult decision of undergoing prophylactic mastectomies.
This straightforward and practical approach combined with the poignant personal experience of a woman at risk facing these challenging decisions will provide readers with the feeling that they have had the benefit of a long conversation with both a trusted physician and a friend who has just gone through the same uncertainties they are facing.

Baker & Taylor
Discovering you are at risk allows you to make informed choices about lifestyle and medical interventions. But genetic information may still leave individuals overwhelmed by anxiety and fear. Learn about women who are coming to grips with the information of their genetic and medical tests.

Book News
Morris, an attorney who is associated with the organization Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, and Gordon, (medicine, UCLA), who is involved in the genetics and ovarian and breast cancer screening programs at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, provide a guide for women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer due to family history and genetic profile that helps them decide if they want to pursue genetic testing, as well as how to interpret test results and make decisions to manage their risks. They address medical options like cancer surveillance, assessing risk, mastectomy and breast reconstruction, surgery, managing menopause, and cancer risks in men who carry mutations on BRCA genes, as well as issues relating to children. Morris, who found out she had the BRCA2 mutation and decided on bilateral mastectomies, also relates her story and that of others who have been faced with these decisions. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Baker
& Taylor
Explains the myths and realities of the "breast cancer genes," helps readers decide if they want to pursue genetic testing, guides them in interpreting the results and gives them a sound basis for making the life-saving decisions required to manage their risks of breast or ovarian cancer, in a book where one of the authors relates her own story of being predisposed to cancer. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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