Your family history. Your future.

If you could find out you were at risk for breast cancer, could you live with that knowledge? Could you live without it? This one-hour documentary tells the incredible stories of women confronting the breast cancer histories that haunt their pasts, while exploring how advances in genetic science can help them change their futures.

The following stories are featured:

An African American family in Chicago faces a four generation cancer legacy. Four daughters in Houston agonize over whether to undergo genetic testing after their mother dies of ovarian cancer. A young breast cancer survivor in New York City focuses on the future as she gives birth to a baby girl.

What does it mean to have a family history of breast cancer? And what can you do to protect yourself if you have one? Changes in two genes - BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BReast CAncer 1 and 2) - make women more susceptible to developing breast and ovarian cancers, and account for up to 5-10% of all breast cancer cases. According to recent studies, women who inherit an altered BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation have a 50-80% increased lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

Since the link between BRCA1 and BRCA2 and breast and ovarian cancer was discovered in 1994, the demand for genetic counseling and testing has been rising exponentionally. But does science have all the answers women need to make the difficult decisions they face?

Featuring interviews with women making tough choices, as well as the US Surgeon General and leading experts at the National Human Genome Research Project.