genetics

I don,t really get the whole thing about a person not having a greater risk of having a gene mutation for a familiar cancer and possibly being denied testing if all the people that have died of related cancers in the family were over a certain age? Doesn't make it any less worrying for yourself that you may or may not be at a  lesser risk because your family member was older when they died of that cancer.  Any risk small or large is a concern to me when there is multiple cancers on one side of the family.  I have been offered testing but I've yet to talk in depth with the counsellor  as to what faulty genes they are considering testing for, being that pancreatic and stomach cancer are dominant on my mothers side.  To be honest the thought of possibly getting pancreatic cancer worries me more than a return of breast cancer.   Guess in life there is always something to worry about , trick is not to let it dominate your thoughts and to do all you can to stay healthy.