First mamogram ever
After losing my husband 19 months ago to stomach cancer (55) after only a 10 month diagnosis , I was defiantly going to go and have my 50 year old mammogram . Low and behold , I was diagnosed with st...
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Thanks so much for that info. Was trying to work out how to respond to everyone’s messageyoungdogmum said:Hi @Pepsijax
Sorry you’ve joined us, but I’ve found this forum so welcoming and helpful in the last 5 weeks since I was diagnosed.
Something to consider down the track (I know it’s a lot to comprehend right now and the focus should be on your current treatment plan) but this also may help future readers...
Given my young age (27) at diagnosis I was automatically referred to a geneticist. I saw a geneticist last week and they asked about stomach cancer in my family. The fact that your husband died of that and you now have breast cancer may mean your children are higher risk for a mutation called TP53 (or TP54 I can’t 100% recall sorry)
Anyway, I don’t want this to scare you, but the geneticist said if there’s a family history of both stomach and breast cancer risk is higher for this mutation.
This is something you could discuss with your team in a few months when things have settled down and see if your children might qualify for testing.
Once again I hope this hasn’t scared you and I am not a geneticist! Just wanted to reiterate what I was told only last week.
Best of luck with waiting for the results to decide, ask lots of questions here or just post feelings !!!
:)