Is it in the genes?
I’ll be honest when the breast surgeon first mentioned genes I hadn’t even thought about genetic testing. Not sure why really, maybe too many years of just getting through diagnoses and treatments with family and then a need for normality in between. But when the doctor first mentioned it, I thought who am I kidding, of course.The list of cancer in my Dad’s side of the family makes like a medical cancer journal to be fair...... My Grandad- Colon Cancer My Dad - Skin Cancer (Although we never gave much thought to this as Dad also had early onset dementia and my sister and I always concerned ourselves with whether we should get tested for dementta. The skin cancer came later for my Dad and by then he was long past caring.) My Sister - Non Hodgkins B Lymphoma My Son - Wilm’s Tumor (Kidney Cancer) Me - Breast Cancer I’m thinking it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out there’s maybe a link? And for those of you wondering what about the rest of the family, aunties and uncles, cousin