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MJo · 11-05-2006, 08:38 AM

sabpri:
Your post interested me. I had five maternal great aunts who died of breast cancer in their 40s. The doctor told me I probably don't have the BRCA gene because cancer skipped my mother's generation and I'm the first of my generation to get it. But your experience tells me that might not be so. It's hard to find family history due to my mother and aunt's faulty memories (they are in their 80s) and the fear and denial that still lingers about this disease. I know my great aunts had radical mastectomies back in the 1950s and early 1960s but the cancer spread quickly anyway. Sounds like Her2. I believe that other hereditary genes besides BRCA will be found relating to breast cancer. Possibly there is a hereditary factor in Her 2. We just don't know yet.

11-05-2006, 08:38 AM	#19
MJo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wilmington, Del. Posts: 1,126	sabpri: Your post interested me. I had five maternal great aunts who died of breast cancer in their 40s. The doctor told me I probably don't have the BRCA gene because cancer skipped my mother's generation and I'm the first of my generation to get it. But your experience tells me that might not be so. It's hard to find family history due to my mother and aunt's faulty memories (they are in their 80s) and the fear and denial that still lingers about this disease. I know my great aunts had radical mastectomies back in the 1950s and early 1960s but the cancer spread quickly anyway. Sounds like Her2. I believe that other hereditary genes besides BRCA will be found relating to breast cancer. Possibly there is a hereditary factor in Her 2. We just don't know yet.