Most of us know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer. Lawrence Ingrassia knows more than his fair share. His mother, brother, two sisters and nephew all died from various forms of cancer.
As a longtime journalist and editor with the New York Times, LA times and Wall Street Journal, Lawrence went digging for answers. After 20 years of searching, doctors discovered a gene mutation in all his brothers and sisters that he managed to dodge.
Ingrassia takes readers on his quest to understand cancer in his family and what the future holds in cancer treatment to us all. His book is called A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery.
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