Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Lit Society: Books and Drama
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Early Occurrence Alzheimer's
Alice's symptoms would not have been attributed to menopause, had she gotten checked out earlier. John himself as a biologist wanted to talk to her neurologist and do his own research. The lab actually has a 99 percent accuracy rate when it comes to this particular genetic mutation. For the children, it means that each child has a 50 per cent chance of having the disease.
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