In the Family (2008)

In the Family plot

Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick (31) faces an impossible choice: have her breasts and ovaries removed preventively or live with a high risk of cancer. Her great-grandmother and grandmother died of breast and ovarian cancer. Her mother also got cancer, but has overcome it. Because of the high chance of heredity, it is crucial for Joanna to find out whether she is also a carrier of the gene. She is very sad when the test shows that she is a carrier of the BRCA gene that causes breast and ovarian cancer. Feeling like a ticking time bomb, she finds herself torn between the dream of motherhood and the unnerving reality of risking her life to nurture her fertility. The documentary follows Joanna Rudnick on her journey into the unpredictable world of preventive genetic testing. In doing so, she not only portrays how she herself struggles with the emotions of the choice between preventive surgery and the possible consequences of not intervention, but she also focuses on her new relationship, which is severely tested by the dark clouds of the drastic choices. is being asked.

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