Day: October 10, 2013

Angelina Jolie may be the most famous person you’ve ever known to openly discuss BRCA mutations and breast cancer, but it’s even more likely that you don’t know Jolie. I do know Caitlin Brodnick. And so should you. Brodnick, a 28-year-old comedian by night (and legal secretary by day) in New York City, is beautiful, brave and wickedly charming. She is a friend of mine. She is a neighbor of mine. And now she is sharing an intimate part of her life’s story with the world, almost in real time. Brodnick’s documentary webseries for Glamour magazine, “Screw You Cancer,”...