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It's Saturday night. Three young women are dressed to the nines at a trendy bistro on Rush Street in downtown Chicago. They're having drinks outside on the kind of summer night that makes you fall in love with the city.

"They call this 'Viagra triangle,'" Lindsay Avner says, to peals of laughter.

On this night, these twentysomethings aren't thinking about flirting, though. They are thinking about issues most women their age don't: life insurance and freezing their eggs.

Tonight Avner is talking to two sisters from Dallas, Texas, about their imminent genetic testing to see whether they have the BRCA gene mutations that will predispose them to developing breast and ovarian cancer.

Avner, 26, knows what they're going through. She tested positive for the gene three years ago. Read full article »

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