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Article: BEATING CANCER TO THE PUNCH
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 27, 1996
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LESLIE BRODY, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-27-1996
BEATING CANCER TO THE PUNCH -- GENETIC TESTING CAN REPLACE FEAR WITH KNOWLEDGE
By LESLIE BRODY, Staff Writer
Date: 05-27-1996, Monday
Section: LIFESTYLE
Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early
Robin Dineen, 33, is haunted by the fear of dying young like her
mother, who succumbed to breast cancer at 39. "When I kiss my little
girl good night, I think in six years I might not be here," she said.
"Who's going to raise her?"
And so the Westwood woman has sought a special kind of counseling
and testing to see if her genes hold any clues to her risk of developing
the disease. She sent away ...