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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Oct 17, 2023 | Replies (58)Comment receiving replies
californiazebra, my family too. My Mom never said a thing. Only her melanoma 50 years ago. No details. Just that she had it. My sister has studied family genetics. She was supposed to share it with us, but honestly, it would be quicker for me to find it myself. She lives 10 miles from me! She is walking through ovarian cancer as sh was not willing to test after my diagnosis. She talks of grandmas and great, great grandmas. For me, I would rather have just known about our Mom.
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Sorry about your sister. When I notified both sides of the family about my BRCA2 mutation and suggested testing, it was met with painful silence. My mom agreed to test just so we could see which side of the family. She was negative. That made sense since Dad’s side had most of the cancer although he passed in a car accident. Melanoma is connected to BRCA2 so that makes sense about your mom. My brother had Melanoma too but before my cancer. I lost him to esophageal cancer though. Lost my other brother to lung cancer at 48 and he never smoked. Other close relatives had leukemia, multiple myeloma, stomach, uterine and prostate cancer — my goodness. Lots not connected to BRCA2 so I think our family has other mutations. I was tested for BRCA2 because my aunt had breast cancer. After I came up BRCA2 positive, my aunt confessed she had lied about breast cancer 40 years earlier apparently as a cover for something else. I was mortified and so embarrassed to tell my surgeon that. She just laughed and said it’s a good thing my aunt lied because that was the only reason she ordered genetic testing for me. Phew!