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It became a when.
Her mother, a longtime teacher for the Washoe County School District, was five years into a nine-year battle with ovarian cancer when Bridges was genetically tested for mutations in two genes commonly called BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.
At first Bridges, now 35, didn’t want to know if she carried the mutated gene that meant there was a strong likelihood that, like her mother and grandmother, she would be diagnosed with cancer.
But as she helped her mom in and out of treatment and hospitals, Bridges knew she couldn’t fight like her mom had for so long.