Comments on: Familial Breast Cancer: More Than Just BRCA http://www.blisstree.com/articles/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:07:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/comment-page-1/#comment-567596 Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:49:27 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/11/01/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/#comment-567596 <b>Sheila</b>: Having a positive family history is bad all around but it's still pretty fuzzy to determine the precise risk. Getting tested for one of the known breast cancer genes can help narrow it down. <b>Kate</b>: Thanks for including me! Sheila: Having a positive family history is bad all around but it’s still pretty fuzzy to determine the precise risk. Getting tested for one of the known breast cancer genes can help narrow it down.

Kate: Thanks for including me!

]]> By: Kate http://www.blisstree.com/articles/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/comment-page-1/#comment-567589 Kate Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:31:32 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/11/01/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/#comment-567589 This post is up with the Healthy & Fit Family Carnival at http://www.babylune.com/the-second-healthy-fit-family-carnival/#more-374 This post is up with the Healthy & Fit Family Carnival at http://www.babylune.com/the-second-healthy-fit-family-carnival/#more-374

]]> By: GetSheila http://www.blisstree.com/articles/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/comment-page-1/#comment-567579 GetSheila Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:16:08 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/11/01/familial-breast-cancer-more-than-just-brca/#comment-567579 "Strong family relationship" still eludes me. My grandmother, maternal aunt and two of her daughter had breast cancer. My mom was high risk because both her mother and sister had it but I was not because no one in my immediate family had it. Only when my mom developed breast cancer did I suddenly graduate to high risk. I still don't understand this dynamic. Grr. “Strong family relationship” still eludes me. My grandmother, maternal aunt and two of her daughter had breast cancer. My mom was high risk because both her mother and sister had it but I was not because no one in my immediate family had it. Only when my mom developed breast cancer did I suddenly graduate to high risk. I still don’t understand this dynamic. Grr.

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