Across medical sociology, a number of scholars have considered personal experiences of breast cancer diagnosis (e.g. Liamputtong and Suwankhong, 2015; Sulik, 2009), including of molecular diagnostics through the case of germline BRCA1/2 genetic testing (Hallowell et al., 2004; Hesse-Biber, 2014). The gene discussed is BRCA1; the disease is breast carcinoma.