Breast cancer discussion?
Question by Angie: Breast cancer discussion?
Treatment for breast cancer has progressed rapidly in the last 15 years, but prognosis is still mixed and depends on several factors, including the stage at which the cancer is found, as well as the type of breast cancer since some are more aggressive than others.
If someone in your family has been found to carry a mutation in either BRCA1 or BRCA2, would you get the test? Would you get your children tested if you have them? Whether or not you got the test, would you change how you live your life? Would you change your mind about having children? (or having additional children if you already have some)?
The best answer:
Answer by Denisedds
No one under 18 can get tested so having children tested is a mute point and simply have someone in your family test positive also does not fit the criteria.
If I tested positive what I would do would depend on which one I tested positive for.
Agree or disagree? Leave your own thoughts below.
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My maternal grandfather had breast cancer.
My mother & her sister each had breast cancer(pre genetic testing).
One of my sisters had breast cancer that was genetically related.
One sister and one brother have had other forms of cancer that were not genetically related.
I had breast cancer but not the genetically related form.
I carry the gene. So do 3 of my 5 siblings.
None of our children (total of 15, aged 22 – 46) have been tested.
Having the results has not changed anything for any of us.
Between them, these untested children now have 16 children aged 1 to 22, none of them have been tested either, nor will we recommend testing.
All of us are aware of our family risk of breast cancer and all of us undertake regular testing as appropriate, none of us dwell on it at other times.
We also have family risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetis from my father but we don’t dwell on that either.
In fact the brother who has had cancer has also had 3 heart attacks as well and is still an active volunteer with the State Emergency Service (his last heart attack was as he was getting down from spreading a tarp on a roof during a storm.)