Caryn Seidman-Becker

1,300 were picked up for the high holidays.

And the rabbi, who was a dear friend of my husband's, my husband was chairman of our synagogue, spoke about it.

We had little flyers on everybody's seat.

I mean, what else are you doing on the high holidays?

You could read it.

I mean, you can also pray.

320 or so have been turned in.

Only 25% of the tests that were taken have been turned in.

Of those 320 and change, seven of them are positive, which means that two and a half percent is actually there.

And of those seven that were turned in, then somebody had their sister tested and she was positive.

Somebody had their kids tested and they were positive because you have a 50% chance of passing on the BRCA mutation if you have it.

Right now, I think the count is 10 or 11 people who will be proactive in their health screening and can hopefully avoid cancer or get it really early, which is the name of the game.

But for the thousand people who didn't turn it in, we made a video, including my son.

I thought, well, if they see an incredible kid without a dad, they'll be motivated.

A rabbi has spoken about it, but to think that a thousand people took it, $250,000 of capital that went into it and that they don't want to know after that two and a half percent, that means that 25 people have it and haven't done anything about it.

That's devastating.

So really figuring out ways that people can save their children, save themselves.

Early intervention, genetic screening is so important, not just for cancer, but for other things.

I don't think ignorance is bliss.

I think people think it can't happen to them.