Amy Byer Shainman has spent more than a decade helping people understand the life-altering implications of genetic cancer-causing mutations. Now, she has a new outlet for everything she’s learned — a candid and grimly comedic film. 

“Love, Danielle,” available on streaming services, follows a fictional woman grappling with the discovery that, like 1 in 40 Ashkenazi Jews, she carries a BRCA1 gene mutation. It’s a darkly funny and intimate look at life as a cancer “previvor” — a portmanteau of “predisposition” and “survivor” used to describe someone who has not been diagnosed with cancer but has an increased risk of developing cancer due to an inherited genetic mutation or strong family history. READ THE FULL ARTICLE