Todaycontributor Jill Martin has breast cancer, she revealed on Monday.

That is the silver lining to this mess for me.

It is what is keeping me going and giving me strength."

Jill Martin on Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Jill Martin on ‘Today’ on Dec. 20, 2022.Credit: Helen Healey/NBC via Getty

If those genes are mutated, one’s risk of contracting cancer becomes much higher.

But though breast cancer is associated with women, the BRCA genes are inherited from both biological parents.