Pittsburgh-Area Woman Made Similar Decision Long Before Jolie

Rachel Golden believed it would be only a matter of time before doctors found cancer in her breasts.

Not only did her two grandmothers have the disease, but Golden carried the so-called BRCA-1 gene mutation that gave her an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer at some point in her life.

Read more on the Tribune-Review website.

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