Reducing the Risk

Hedda Hart-DeLara’s two young children inspired her to choose prophylactic surgery. Organ removal surgery. Photo by Coco Boardman

When tests reveal cancer probability, organ removal surgery can beat the odds Hedda Hart-DeLara sat in her gynecologist’s office, checking boxes on a family history questionnaire. In her mid-30s, she hadn’t thought much about cancer, but the questions drew out memories of her mother, who died of cancer at age 50, and an aunt who had […]