"BRCA Means Planning Your Whole Future at 26"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Emily Kellman (27) opens up about how finding out that she is a BRCA1 gene mutation carrier has impacted her life. She shares what the testing process was like and how she felt when she “tested positive.” We hear how she, her family, and her doctors worked together to determine the best path forward, and what her fears and anxieties have been like along the way. Emily tells us how she’s had to plan for her future in her twenties to ensure she’s able to have the life and family that she wants. Emily shares how her friends have supported her, what resources have been helpful, and what advice she has for anyone else who may be going through something similar.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to Seeing Other People Unfiltered. |
| 0:09.8 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.8 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:18.9 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. Think you're alone out there? Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom |
| 0:21.5 | or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. Hi, I'm Emily Kelman. I'm 27. I live here in the |
| 0:30.0 | city. And what I want to talk about today is when I tested, it sounds weird saying tested positive, |
| 0:37.3 | but when I got my test results, that I was |
| 0:40.0 | a Brocka 1 gene mutation carrier. I first and foremost want to thank you for coming on. |
| 0:47.7 | This is so important to be talking about. I've never done an episode about this. And immediately, |
| 0:52.4 | like there is such a response from people of like this episode |
| 0:55.1 | is needed and there are I can only imagine how many of the people listening right now are going |
| 1:01.9 | through this too or might someday go through this or like know somebody going through this so |
| 1:06.5 | talking about it is so important so thank you so so much much. For those who don't know, what does that |
| 1:13.5 | mean? What is the BRCA gene mutation? So having a BRCA mutation is basically, you know, |
| 1:21.2 | you get half your genes from your mom, half your genes from your dad. And everyone has a |
| 1:26.0 | broca gene. And everything I'm saying'm saying like is from my own you know |
| 1:29.9 | knowledge from doctors we're not we're not doctors yeah we're not pretending to be this is personal |
| 1:34.5 | experience exactly exactly and I'll like say that a million times because it's such a personal thing |
| 1:38.8 | but basically when you get you know the two different strands from one strand from your mom, one |
| 1:44.3 | from your dad, the broca gene, there is a common mutation or change that may happen that |
| 1:51.6 | causes your risk of breast and ovarian cancer to be significantly increased compared to |
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