10/1/24

DNA, Genes, Genetic Mutations, & Hereditary Cancer Simplified

 
Since becoming an advocate, I have encountered far too many people who don’t seem to have a clue about DNA, genes, genetic mutations, and hereditary cancer. Tragically, I'm a hereditary cancer widower because people who should have had a clue (my late wife's relatives and her doctors) didn't have one.

As juvenile as this may appear, it’s actually for grown-ups. I have found in my decades of professional illustrating that the simpler you make the subject when first presenting it the better, no matter the age of your audience.

This is National Hereditary Cancer Week. Let’s start with the basics to get people talking and thinking. Hereditary cancer is preventable!

A PDF booklet of this story can be download at www.genetionary.org/genes