Joelle has been interviewed about her book on television, radio and in newspapers. Please use the contact page if you would like to interview the author.
KRON TV
Sunday Morning News
Henry Tenenbaum interviewed Joelle on the morning news at the San Francisco television news station on June 3, 2012.
May 4, 2012
MARIE THOMAS McNAUGHTON / Rohnert Park Correspondent
The challenge of reading put-it-out-there blogger Joelle Burnette’s self-published, tell-all book is knowing that she is going to bare all: her dilemma, her choices, her consequences.
Titled “Cancer Time Bomb, How the BRCA Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs” and carrying a graphic cover illustration by Burnette, the 300-page volume asks the soul-searing question, should one cut out healthy parts of one’s body to forestall a potentially early death?
J. Weekly Story
July 13, 2012
By Emma Silvers, j. staff
When Joelle Burnette learned she was likely to develop breast cancer, it took her a matter of weeks to make a huge decision. The journalist was 42 when she tested positive for the BRCA genetic mutation — a hereditary pre-indicator of cancer that Ashkenazi Jews are more likely to have than any other ethnic group — and her primary concern was staying alive for her two young children.
“I just said ‘Take it all, take my breasts and ovaries and fallopian tubes,’ ” remembers Burnette, four years later. The reality of cancer was made all the more stark by her sister’s ongoing battle with the disease; her grandmother and aunt had both died from it years before.
KSRO Radio Interview
July 13, 2012
With Radio Anchor Michelle Marques
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