...As part of her collaboration with Wolf and Barbara Koenig, a medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Petersen recently surveyed 3000 people with pancreatic cancer and their families and 3000 controls, seeking input about privacy and information-sharing after death in different scenarios. Relatives nearly always say, "'If you know that I have a BRCA2 mutation in my family, you have an obligation to let me know,'" Koenig says....read more
