“Today” show correspondent Jill Martin is speaking out about her breast cancer diagnosis. The 47-year-old was diagnosed shortly after testing positive for the BRCA gene, she revealed.
Martin shared in a “Today” piece, “I remember saying to myself, ‘My life is never going to be the same.’ It was the day I was told I had breast cancer. “I had always feared this day would come, but I never really thought it would.
Just three weeks before, in between work calls, I had taken an at-home saliva test by a genetic testing company and mailed it in.
Honestly, I had forgotten I even did it. “My grandmother passed away from breast cancer. And my beautiful mother — who is healthy now — had a double mastectomy in her late 40s after being diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, often referred to as stage 0 breast cancer.
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