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

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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.

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I’m so sorry your brothers passed away from cancer. My mon also had lung cancer, but she died from stroke while in remission. Her two uncles also had lung cancer, one smoke, the other didn’t. If there’s a lung cancer gene, I would like to know.
We’re the lucky one that we found out and were treated. Unlike you I hadn’t have the courage to go through the mastectomy until 2 years later. I hope is that we will stay in remission for a long long time. I’ll be 64 in a few months. Give me 15-20 years, I’ll be ready. LOL . 🤗