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Young woman diagnosed with osteoporosis

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Aug 25 4:58pm | Replies (59)
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@windyshores

Thank you for your reply and for the PM as well. Yes, it might be worth it. To be honest, I would give anything and everything, just to get the right answers and treatment. The dillemas are exhausting on itself.
Family history is on my mum's side, a lot of her female relatives got breast cancer. 3 of my aunts, to be specific. I don't know if that's significant, but I think it still counts a risk.

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windyshores | @windyshores | Aug 12, 2023

Aunts are not first degree relatives. It might also help to see if your aunts' cancers were genetic. I was told to only be concerned about first degree relatives (mother, sister) and even though both my grandmothers died of breast cancer, and my aunts and cousins had it, I was told my own cancer was not genetic. I was tested for a whole panel not just BRCA. That said, one out of 8 women get breast cancer and 65-80% are hormone-driven.

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