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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 22 11:36pm | Replies (28)

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Zebra, Katgob. Lucky me, all my siblings got tested after I told them. They’re not mad at me but thank me instead. I’m reluctant to tell my cousins. They love to shoot the messenger.

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Myoga— so glad your siblings were grateful you were trying to help. It was my extended family too that became silent. I had already lost one brother to cancer and my other brother was close to dying from cancer when I was diagnosed. I don’t know if they would have tested if healthy (they don’t have biological children) but they would have been thankful. The brother who was dying from esophageal cancer also had melanoma so I’m betting he had the BRCA2 mutation. My other brother passed from lung cancer at 48 and never smoked a day in his life so I’m betting we have some other unidentified cancer mutations in the family.