EditorialMonica Monfre Scantlebury, who discovered she had the BRCA1 genetic mutation in 2017, in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2022. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
Editorial"My drinking may have accelerated recently, but alcohol had played a rousing role in my life long before diagnosis," writes Susan Gubar who has been dealing with ovarian cancer since 2008. (Heami Lee/The New York Times)