Bret,
Children ARE getting our cancers. With BRCA carriers, the cancer is
starting earlier and earlier. For instance, the grandmother had breast
cancer when she was 40-something. Then the mother develops breast
cancer when she is 30-something. And then the women/child is developing
breast cancer while in her 20s. It is alarming and scary. I know many
BRCA positive women and they are terrified for their children.
The gene mutation can skip a generation or two as well. I believe a
BRCA carrier has something like an 80% chance of developing cancer.
My cousin carries both BRCA genes. Her mother and her sister died young
of ovarian and breast cancer. Many years ago, she had prophylactice
bilaterian mastectomies and had her ovaries removed. Oddly enough, the
genes come from a side of the family not related to me. I do not have
BRCA but I developed breast cancer at age 42.
ar
--- In cancercured@
wrote:
> Furthermore, if we are talking about a cancer gene that is
inherrited, we are only talking about clearly connecting very few
cancers. FOr if a gene causes cancers, children will get your cancer!
Still, breast cancer Mothers have daughters that never get breast
cancer.
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