Before Tracy Smith Moss, a resident of Freeport, Grand Bahama, spit her DNA sample into a small plastic container that resembled a contact lens case and handed it over to an American researcher, she knew where this was headed. After all, Moss grew up with dinner table stories of a grandmother who died at 35 because she chose to save a pregnancy over treating breast cancer. Moss watched her mother battle breast cancer for 17 years. She supported an older sister through a double mastectomy and radiation therapy. And when she was 43, Moss spent the majority of her first pregnancy on chemotherapy. Continue reading FULL story in the Miami Herald.
