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I think that's an important distinction that is often not talked about: breast cancer history. Breast cancer and prostate cancer are related in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. While you can get a gene test to see if these are mutated genes, thus MAYBE giving you a higher chance of severe cancer, it's important to know that this is bleeding edge science and very fuzzy at the moment (this from a very long discussion with a genetic specialist regarding this test) - however, regardless of mutation, having breast cancer in your family history may give one more reason to be diligent about their treatment. Like @retireditguy, my mother passed from breast cancer.

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You make a great point about the gene analysis being essentially another data point but far from conclusive. I did get the gene testing and I was surprised that in my case it didn't show any genetic markers for breast/prostate cancer. But my 2 sisters died from it (although technically 1 died in 2020 from blood clots in the lungs caused from radiation therapy), my brother had aggressive prostate cancer in his late 40's (and 25 years later got bladder cancer probably from the radiation), and 2 of my 3 aunts on my Mom's side had breast cancer with 1 of them dying from it. So I strongly suspect there is something genetic there that just hasn't been identified by science yet. But who knows; it could just be bad luck. All that said, not a great family history which did influence my decision making in that I didn't want to assume I had the common slow growing kind of prostate cancer. It's an imperfect world and all we can do is make what we believe is the best decision at the time with the information we have. Best wishes.