Caryn Seidman-Becker

Well, how are we going to make sure that other people with the BRCA genetic mutation are aware of it?

How are we going to honor Mark's spirit and his life?

And how are we going to make a difference in the world?

I send my kids off to school every day with the saying, make the world a better place.

I think that that's all of our jobs.

And so really now fighting for change.

Genetic screening and really wanting everyone to be genetically screened.

In Finland, they screen umbilical cord blood for 75 cents when a child is born and tell them their genetic situation when they're 21.

That's smart.

We should be doing that here.

I'm very mission oriented.

I care about people deeply, the clear people and especially my family.

I feel like you have to be a difference maker and you got to lead from the front and you just do.

I'm incredibly curious and I was not curious about the BRCA mutation.

I didn't know much about it besides I had heard about it from Angelina Jolie a while ago.

My husband's brother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April of 2021 and it was the first time we found out that he was BRCA positive.

So my husband was screened and I remember he peeked his head into the study in June of 2021 and said, I'm BRCA positive.

And I was like, okay, we're going to deal with this.

So we went and we had him

scan for skin cancer.