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Alan Blassberg on Being a Male BRCA Carrier

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Alan Blassberg
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Alan Blassberg, Director/Producer of Pink and Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer, discusses being a male BRCA carrier.

Alan Blassberg, Director/Producer of Pink and Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer, discusses being a male BRCA carrier. He explains that getting tested for breast cancer, as a man, can be a very isolating, emasculating process.

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