Who has to test for BRCA Gene

I had my treatment in 2017 for stage 2 idc at age 40,at time oncologists and surgeon said didn’t need testing for gene,recently I have seen gynaecologist to get a hysterscopy and curettage because of tamoxifen,he said because of young age he thinks I should be tested,so confusing, if I had the bracca gene it probably would have changed the treatment I chose 

@stork It might count.  A geneticist can advise.  I think it depends on various factors as well as a close relationship with one and that also determines the type of testing (I think).

There are calls for more genetic testing in the UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49897869

@Stork I think that might count but they would want to start with yourself. Specifically the age of diagnosis would be interesting. I only had 1 1st degree relative but I had multiple second degree...Aunts, cousins etc. Genetic specialists map this and work out risks. 

Hello my mother’s sister was diagnosed with Stage 3 B/C 40 years ago when she was 42
I was diagnosed with stage 1 in June 2017
my mother’s brother daughter my cousin was diagnosed with stage 3 last year 
Are they close relations for my younger sister to be tested?
my Aunty lived for 40 years 
Regards Stork

@kezmusc @Sister My mother says the same thing. When she was diagnosed she asked her mother, but all Grandma could say was that various aunts had died of "women's problems".

It's interesting @Sister.  How things like that were kept hush hush.  I knew my great grandmother had breast cancer but that was it.  I quizzed my mother further when I was diagnosed but she said that nobody talked about womens problems openly then and all she knew was that she had a mastectomy.  No idea about chemo or anything else.  It took a lot of digging but we eventually found that three of her sisters (she had 6) and two of their daughters had it as well.  However, great grandmothers are not considered close enough relatives to put you in the "high risk" category.  

Maybe ask your surgeon about it. That's who arranged it for me. 

It's worth asking the questions about testing - I'm not sure if age is a reason for subsidy but it may be given what @youngdogmum  says.  Do question the family members who know about your family history (particularly the older women).  Breast cancer was often kept quiet as it wasn't seen as something that should be shared.  I've spoken to a couple of women who only found out that breast cancer had been in their family when they started asking.  And it doesn't always have to be breast cancer in the family that triggers the subsidised test - mine was done on the basis of my sister having bc and a cousin having an unknown cancer.

I’m 27 and was told because I have no family history either side of breast or ovarian I didn’t qualify for public funding. I was referred initially purely due to my age. However because I had lobular opposed to ductal I qualified for another range of tests which happened to include BRCA .. I didn’t understand that process but anyways got tested for 5 genes, all negative. 
It would have changed my treatment because if you come back BRCA you usually are recommended bilateral mastectomy so I would have had to schedule having the other one off fairly soon, plus when you approach 40 they usually recommend ovarian removal.