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Thank you
You know my father never had prostate cancer, but his 2 brothers did. I wonder how this works out genetically.
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Genetics are a very strange thing. I got BRCA2 from my mother. Both of her sisters had breast cancer. One of them died of it and so did her daughter. My mother never had a problem, but did pass the BRCA2 gene to me. On top of that, my father died of prostate cancer so between the two of them, I was almost guaranteed to get it, and did at 62. My brother didn’t get BRCA2, but he got prostate cancer at 75 again due to my father doubling his risk of getting it.
So did your two uncles having prostate cancer and your father not having it have an effect on you? Very likely it did.
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Good question!