Opinion: Joseph Fraumeni Jr., pioneering cancer genetics researcher, devoted his life to families like mine

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When Joe Fraumeni was a pre-med student in the 1950s, he accompanied a group that visited Massachusetts General Hospital to sit in an amphitheater and watch a patient being cut open for an abdominal operation. As he told me many years later, Joe got so queasy from the sight that he had to walk out and decided not to become a surgeon. How fortunate we were that he didn’t. Read the rest…