Was there a history of breast cancer in your family?

roseann4 said:

Yes, but post-menopause.
My Grandmother and Great Aunt on my mom's side had it and my Aunt on my dad's side had it. All were over 60. I was 58.

Roseann

I am the first in my family
I am the first in my family to be diagnosed with breast cancer, had other cancers in the family. Dad passed away from Melanoma and brother diagnosed with two brains tumors. BRCA test was negative.
Deb

I am the first on my mom's
I am the first on my mom's side of the family. My paternal grandmother had BC in the late 40's or early 50's, had a radical mastectomy and lived to age 99. She made her own prosthesis. The surgeon who did my first surgery said my dad's side didnt count, so I guess that makes me the first.

laurissa said:

I'm the first
In my immediate family. I pray my daughters, sisters and nieces do not get it, too. I never thought much about bc, never examined myself, no routine mammo (mammo didn't show it anyway). I found a bulge while shaving under arm.

I am the first Breast Cancer
I am the first Breast Cancer and/or any other type of Cancer. I am from a large family on both my mom and dads side, there literally are about 100 of us on my moms side, including aunts, uncles and cousins. i quess i was the one that got it, and i pray every night that no one else gets it.

Dot53 said:

Yes
My mother and all three of her daughters had breast cancer.. all of us in the left breast. I was dxed at 53, exact same age as my mom. Genetic testing came back negative but my doc says that is still most likely genetic.

Dot

I am my mother's daughter...
She died of breast cancer when she was 51. Every year past 51 I felt safer. Silly me.

Victoria

I am the fourth in my family
I am the fourth in my family to have BC.

I am the first in my family
I am the first in my family with breast cancer.

Second....mom was first...
But I followed a great example of 'kick-butt' attitude!!!

She kept apologizing that she 'gave' it to me...I finally put a stop to it..."So, what you are saying is that you are sorry you gave me life? I'm not...even with the challenges!".

Hugs, Kathi

lizzie17 said:

in the family?
First one.

i didn't have a BC
i didn't have a BC diagnosis,but my biological mum had BC aged 37.She chose a lumpectomy,i THINK she had rads,and Tamoxifen for 5 years.

I had my proph BMx cus of my high risk from recieving mantle rads to treat Hodgkins.Though with my 'mum' having had BC young,i would have been screened earlier anyway. I do worry for my daughter though,as my bio-mum was also adopted and her natural family live in Germany and they have no contact.We don't know if there are more cases of BC out there or not.

My BC consultant asked if i had any Jewish blood relatives living in Germany,as Jews have a higher rate of ovarian cancer. Of course,i have no idea if i have or not! My hubs side has had a few BC cases but i think only 1 was a primary relative~his nan.She got BC in her 30's.The others are her sister/aunt or something.
They refuses to do gene test on me as i only had my bio-mum with BC! I think it has to be 2 or more primary relatives on ONE side of your family in order to get gene tested here.God forbid,but if i do still go on to get it,then Emily will get tested along with Annie and myself.

m-star said:

i didn't have a BC
i didn't have a BC diagnosis,but my biological mum had BC aged 37.She chose a lumpectomy,i THINK she had rads,and Tamoxifen for 5 years.

I had my proph BMx cus of my high risk from recieving mantle rads to treat Hodgkins.Though with my 'mum' having had BC young,i would have been screened earlier anyway. I do worry for my daughter though,as my bio-mum was also adopted and her natural family live in Germany and they have no contact.We don't know if there are more cases of BC out there or not.

My BC consultant asked if i had any Jewish blood relatives living in Germany,as Jews have a higher rate of ovarian cancer. Of course,i have no idea if i have or not! My hubs side has had a few BC cases but i think only 1 was a primary relative~his nan.She got BC in her 30's.The others are her sister/aunt or something.
They refuses to do gene test on me as i only had my bio-mum with BC! I think it has to be 2 or more primary relatives on ONE side of your family in order to get gene tested here.God forbid,but if i do still go on to get it,then Emily will get tested along with Annie and myself.

Genetics
Wow I am surprised to see so many who have had genetic testing that are negative guess the less than 10 percent holds true. I was also told my father's side of family didn't count but that is not true you can get a gene from mother or father and was told that when I moved just one province over from where I was living when first trying to be diagnosed. Oh by the way the same doctor told me there was also no corillation with smoking and breast cancer, why they weren't interested if I smoked or not and that also turned out to be false. My father is an only child as well.
Tara

I'm not the first...Great
I'm not the first...Great Aunt, Aunt, Cousin, Second Cousin. I was still surprised when I got the diagnosis. Had mammos from 40 onto diagnosis (I'm 42). I tested negative for the BRCA 1 and 2, but certainly there is a genetic component, we just haven't found it yet.
Jan