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In the Family: Support Group

In the second clip from the 'In the Family' lesson plan, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick visits a support group and hears about the medical treatment choices and consequences of a number of women who tested positive for the breast cancer mutation. Discuss treatment choices students would make if they were in that situation.

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