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Going public - will I have any choices
Hi all - I received a call last week telling me that my biopsies show cancer in one of my breasts. It's not a total surprise as there is a very strong family history of it - I always felt like a tick...
Follow up info...tests for familial cancer are free or not expensive at all at familial cancer centres if you can show a strong trend. I'm BRCA2 positive and the advice we (family) were given was double mastectomies plus removal of ovaries and fallopian tubes. Didn't have to fight for it, sisters who had cancer earlier (1996) were told lumpectomy, single mastectomy was good enough....it's not what we were recommended now..