Re: Daughtersofmoms withBREASTCANCER My Family History

Even though there we have no family history, and mom has not been on hormonal therapy, my sister started out doing mammograms, and so I have had one every year since I was 38. Also, I get a full physical from both my family dr. and OB/GYN every year, and do self breast exams, though mom's tumor was about the size of an peanut, no shell. The scary part is that my mom's BC is not necessarily genetic, but it is very hormonal responsive.  Some of the problem with the bones she has had is due to taking hormone blockers, which tend to weaken the bones.  The bone builders don't seem to work as fast and ostoeporosis develops.
 
So, I agree, Eliza, you can't ever trust that you are "safe."

Lesley

"A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal." 
Sheri S. Tepper
 

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Eliza <molinare13@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Eliza <molinare13@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Daughtersofmoms withBREASTCANCER My Family History
To: daughtersofmomswithbreastcancer@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:19 AM

I asked this same question to my mother's doctor.  I was curious because hers came back as not the gentetic type.  What I took to mean of us not being at risk of having it passed on.  When I asked the doctor the question, she was very frank and honest with me, and told me that in her opinion she didn't care what side or what test said what, she said all woman should be tested, and if you have a strong family history to get mammograms earlier. 
 
We should all be proactive in this.  Our mother's, aunt and sisters are fighting on the battle field, and we should be the front lines.  I'm very glad of the doctors honest opinion.  Because in my head I thought I was safe, and that may not always be the case.  I never even thought about breast cancer before my mother was diagnosed.  We have no family history, she was not on hormonal therapy, it was just something that happened. 
 

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, quiltingdawn <quiltingdawn@ yahoo.com> wrote:

From: quiltingdawn <quiltingdawn@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Daughtersofmoms withBREASTCANCER My Family History
To: daughtersofmomswith breastcancer@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:20 PM

Ten years go this october will be my mother's anniversary in which she
was first told she had breast cancer (1998). Since then my sister was
diagonised with the disease in 2001 and lost her battle in 2005 at the
age of 39. Now my Aunt (mom's sister) is battleing the disease.

Before she died, my sister found out that it was genetic and we are
all being tested. I don't have the gene, my Aunt does and so does her
daughter. We get my mother's results next Monday and we will also find
out if her cancer is back. My Aunt has the same exact gene on the same
chromisome as my sister, Identical. How do we find out where it
originated if now on in the family was diagonised with it before my
mother? Like what side of the family and who is at risk? My sister's
daughters will be tested next year as they reasch adulthood.
Thanks for any input.

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