MORE THAN PINK Walk™ Stacey Kim-Jackson

Stacey Kim-Jackson: Stacy’s breast cancer journey began when her older sister, a radiologist in Chicago, was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2017 and underwent genetic testing. She tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation.Stacey was tested that December and was also BRCA1 positive. When she saw her doctor early in January, 2018, a day before her daughter’s, Riley, first birthday, she recommended that Stacey have a mammogram to have a baseline for the future. The future turned out to be then. The mammogram revealed a lump. The subsequent biopsy tested positive for breast cancer. First, Stacey underwent fertility treatments to preserve eggs for the future. By February, she started chemo for six months, then had a double mastectomy in August. She is now cancer free. A professor at Whittier Law School, Stacey and her husband, Eric, hope to have other children. Then she plans to have her ovaries removed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/late-night-health-radio--2804369/support.