When Your Genes Determine Whether You Live or Die

I spent years afraid to see a doctor, but eventually, I needed to know what the tests would say about my cancer risk

Amber Stewart
Human Parts
Published in
7 min readNov 18, 2019

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Photo: Victoria Strukovskaya/Unsplash

My life began with an unexpected mass.

Though my parents had been trying to have a child, it wasn’t until my mother took a routine pregnancy test before a…

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Amber Stewart
Human Parts

Queer writer, essayist, and poet. American living in Uruguay. She/her.