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List of a Lifetime

2021 · Lifetime · Lifetime Original

PASS

Summary

A breast-cancer diagnosis leads Brenda Lee to reconnect with the daughter she gave up for adoption. Together, they navigate family history and questions about inherited cancer risk.

Why it passes

Do they have their own story?

The patient’s diagnosis leads her to seek her daughter and manage identity/family choices.

Are they allowed to live?

Survival/treatment and genetic risk are part of the story, not just death.

Does the medical reality hold up?

Specific breast cancer subtype gives more medical grounding than generic terminality.