Prevention Is the Best Medicine
“I HAVE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED FRIENDS IN THIS ROOM,” Mary-Claire King warned me as we entered a Manhattan gathering of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in October 2018. “I might lose you.” Seconds later, physicians, researchers, and philanthropists surrounded the petite scientist and swept her away in a whirlwind of admiration.
It was further evidence, as if any were needed, of the 72-year-old King’s legendary status as a geneticist. There are few aspects of breast cancer research over the last three decades that King or her University of Washington
