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Hi Doug,
Thanks for your response. My son is 26 yrs old. If daughters are diagnosed with the BRCA2 gene, then in their 20s an MRI would be done annually. Mammograms are not to effective in screening at that age due to the density of the breasts.
It is interesting, I had the gene passed to me by my mother, and her father died of pancreatic cancer, so probably it was her father that passed her the br ca gene, not her mother. Course there is the slight possibility that her mother did have the gene, but did not develop br ca and she died at the age of 82.
Did I read correctly that you were diagnosed with DCIS, yet your symptom was discharge? If so, I think that is pretty amazing.
Harrie (Maryanne)
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*** MARYANNE *** aka HARRIECANARIE
1993: right side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads
1999: left side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads, tamoxifen
2006:
BRCA 2 positive
Stage I, invasive DCIS (6mm x 5mm)
Grade: intermediate
sentinal node biopsy: neg
HER2/neu amplified 4.7
ER+/PR+
TOPO II neg
Oncotype dx 20
Bilat mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction
oophorectomy
2007:
6 cycles TCH (taxotere, carboplatin, herceptin)
finished 1 yr herceptin 05/07
Arimidex, stopped after almost 1 yr
Femara
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