Martha Ruiz-Martinez holds a picture of herself when she received chemotherapy to treat her Stage 3 breast cancer in 2009. Ruiz-Martinez underwent a double mastectomy in 2010 and has been in remission ever since. PHOTO BY VINCENTMARSHALL/DODGE CITY DAILY GLOBE / Dodge City Daily Globe
By Vincent marshall/Dodge City Daily Globe Some of the siblings with the BRCA-1 gene went through what Ruiz-Martinez calls, "pre-vivors" where someone carrying the gene…
