IN OUR GENES BOOKLETS & FACT SHEETS
Genetic Counselling for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
WEBSITES
FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
www.facingourrisk.org
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Foundation
www.hboc.ca
HBOC Society of Alberta
www.hbocsociety.org
Be Bright Pink
www.bebrightpink.org
Pink Hope
www.pinkhope.org.au
Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit
Women's College Research Institute
www.womensresearch.ca/our-research/cancers-common-in-women/familial-breast-cancer-research-unit
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
BRCA1 and BRCA2: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing
National Cancer Institute
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/risk/brca
Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
UpToDate
www.uptodate.com/contents/genetic-testing-for-breast-and-ovarian-cancer-beyond-the-basics
Breast Cancer
Genetics Home Reference
ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=breastcancer
FOR JEWISH WOMEN
Jacob International
www.jacobintl.org
Sharsheret
www.sharsheret.org
OVARIAN CANCER
Ovarian Cancer Canada
www.ovariancancer.org
OTHER CANCERS
Other Cancer Risks
FORCE
www.facingourrisk.org/risk_management/other_cancer_risks.html
PROPHYLACTIC MASTECTOMY
Mastectomy
www.facingourrisk.org/risk_management/mastectomy.html
Prophylactic Mastectomy: Breast Cancer Prevention for High-Risk Women
Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/prophylactic-mastectomy/WO00060
Preventive Mastectomy: Questions and Answers
National Cancer Institute
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/preventive-mastectomy
Prophylactic Mastectomy
Breastcancer.org
www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/prophylactic_mast.jsp
Risk-Reducing Breast Surgery
Macmillan Cancer Support
www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Causesriskfactors/Genetics/Risk-reducingbreastsurgery/Risk-reducingbreastsurgery.aspx
PROPHYLACTIC OOPHORECTOMY / HYSTERECTOMY
Oophorectomy
FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
www.facingourrisk.org/risk_management/oophorectomy.html
Prophylactic Oophorectomy: Preventing Cancer by Surgically Removing Your Ovaries
Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/breast-cancer/WO00095
HysterSisters
www.hystersisters.com
CHEMOPREVENTION
Chemoprevention and Breast Cancer
FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
www.facingourrisk.org/risk_management/chemoprevention_breast_cancer.html
Chemoprevention and Ovarian Cancer
FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
www.facingourrisk.org/risk_management/chemoprevention_ovarian_cancer.html
Breast Cancer Chemoprevention: Drugs That Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/breast-cancer/WO00092
Medicines to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/MedicinestoReduceBreastCancer/index
Medications for the Prevention of Breast Cancer
UptoDate
www.uptodate.com/patients/content/topic.do?topicKey=~3RkRGSmwhqwH
ONLINE COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Willow-talk
www.willow.org/community/login
FORCE
www.facingourrisk.org/FORCE_community/message_board.html
High Risk Women
Breastcancer.org
community.breastcancer.org/forum/47
BOOKS
Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny, by Sue Friedman, Rebecca Sutphen and Kathy Steligo (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Prophylactic Mastectomy: Insights from Women Who Chose to Reduce Their Risk, by Andrea Farkas Patenaude (Praeger, 2012)
Previvors: Facing the Breast Cancer Gene and Making Life-Changing Decisions, by Dina Roth Port (Avery Trade, 2010)
Positive Results: Making the Best Decisions When You're at High Risk of Breast or Ovarian Cancer, by Joi L. Morris and Ora Karp Gordon (Prometheus, 2010)
Pieces of Me, by Veronica Neave (Hegemony Press, 2011)
What We Have: A Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, by Amy Boesky (Gotham, 2010)
Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the Breast Cancer Gene, by Sarah Gabriel (Doubleday, 2009)
Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny, by Jessica Queller (Spiegel & Grau, 2008)
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene, by Masha Gessen (Harcourt, 2008)
Apron Strings: Inheriting Courage, Wisdom and... Breast Cancer, by Diane Tropea Greene. (Rainbow Books, 2007)
FILMS
In the Family, directed by Joanna Rudnick (Kartemquin Films, 2008)
Watch online at www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/9605/In-the-Family