horrible death from ovarian cancer. shortly after that i watched my sister battle ovarian cancer and she also has the gene and after she was tested and went through eight rounds of chemotherapy i knew that i had to get tested for the gene as well and mine did come back positive. i feel so powerful that i have and so thankful that i have this knowledge. >> the gene for some folks who are just hearing this for the first time this is the gene of o ovarian cancer. you tested positive. what did you do with that information? >> it's the ovarian cancer and breast cancer gene. what i did with that information is i started doing a lot of research meeting with several doctors and what they told me and what they recommended was that i went ahead and did a hysterectomy and a double mastectomy and to be honest with