My sons are 43 and 46. My older Sons wife had Breast cancer at the same time as my sister, she was 39, although she is not our bloodline My two Granddaughters have a Mother With BRCA and a Father with CHEK2. They want to be tested as soon as they are settled in a job with good insurance as i was not covered in 2015. My oldest granddaughter is 21 she was hired on as firefighter at age 19 and she is ready to be tested, and after seeing her mother go through Breast cancer she has already made up her mind to Do Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomies if she is positive for either before she is 30. The 19 year agrees that is also the way she will go. They will both have to be tested for both gene mutations. Both Sons get colonoscopy every two years. And now since they are at 27% for colon cancer they are yearly screened for that.
My younger son has three boys so he will make sure at the appropriate time that they are tested. It’s amazing that many doctors still have never heard of this gene mutation. When I tested positive in 2015 there were only 8 positive for CHECK2 in the Mayo system, wonder how many their are now? Also wondering if mayo checks for CHEK2 with
all Breast Cancers now? And also wondering if insurance is covering Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomies now? I Pray they are. I am now having bladder and kidney problems so am taking care of what ever comes of it.