Caryn Seidman-Becker

And we had a CAT scan to make sure that his organs to baseline it because he was 49 and a half.

His brother was eight years older.

It all came back good in July 2021.

Turns out they missed it.

And he was diagnosed in January 2022 with stage four pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to his liver.

What we learned about the BRCA mutation at that point was that

were Ashkenazi Jews, that two and a half percent of Ashkenazi Jews are BRCA positive.

That is one out of 40 people.

That was a shocking statistic to me.

We had no idea.

And to know that if you are genetically screened early, you can monitor it, you can be on top of it.

There's all sorts of things you can do.

It significantly raises a woman's chance of ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

skin cancer, pancreatic cancer, and for men, prostate cancer.

Mark's dad had prostate cancer 17 years ago, maybe more than that, but nobody bothered to test him for BRCA.

Our family is on a real mission with our Warrior Mensch Foundation in honor of my husband and his legacy.

to get the word out on genetic screening, we bought 2,000 kits for our synagogue, thinking if we just give them to you, you'll go home.

All you have to do is spit and send it in.

Easy.

And so we bought 2,000.