Our doctors say BRCA risks for Indian women are lower than Western studies show, but we have our own founder mutations—like the 185delAG in our communities. A germline result, like my positive BRCA1, lives in every cell, inherited and whispering to future generations, while tumor mutations are only in the cancer itself. Yet, statistics feel distant when you're the one in the chair; my own report listed a 'variant of uncertain significance' for months, a limbo where textbooks offer no comfort. What stays with me is the silence in our home after I told my parents, the way my father's chai grew cold as he struggled with the word 'warasat'—inheritance.
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