prophylactic mastectomy - possible pathway to chest surgery for a few

[Lady_Di]

Originally Posted by chefhmboyrd

There is no history of breast cancer in my family, but there has been some skin, unterine, and colon cancer, would that qualify?

well... a predisposition towards many cancers can tip the balance in fact

my sweetie did have colon, uterine, and a myriad others as well

I am glad the chesticles are gone, with his luck, they were trouble in the making on many many levels

another interesting point, I got a beauty mark taken off years ago, just telling my doctor about my grand fathers melanoma

in other words they rarely check these histories and take you at your word, not that I am encouraging any fibbing going on towards any doctors, since they are gods afterall and all knowing, lol...

d'who is rather jaded when it comes to doctors and their egos

[chefhmboyrd]

Originally Posted by Lady_Di

well... a predisposition towards many cancers can tip the balance in fact

my sweetie did have colon, uterine, and a myriad others as well

I am glad the chesticles are gone, with his luck, they were trouble in the making on many many levels

another interesting point, I got a beauty mark taken off years ago, just telling my doctor about my grand fathers melanoma

in other words they rarely check these histories and take you at your word, not that I am encouraging any fibbing going on towards any doctors, since they are gods afterall and all knowing, lol...

d'who is rather jaded when it comes to doctors and their egos

Well i certainly would not be fibbing, We have quite a bit of melanoma in the family due to most of my older relatives working on the farm from a very early age, in addition to several that worked in coal mines and had some form of black lung, cancer and the like. I may have to get with my doctor on this and see what she says.

Thanks for the Great Info!

[Rockinonahigh]

In my family we have a high amount of female cancers so nearly every woman has had a histo before age 30 except one of my aunts who missed the whole mess by a stroke of luck.My grand pa had stomach cancer as well as one of my uncles,I herd one or two of my uncles had passed from lung cancer when I was a kid.I will pass this info by my doc and see what she says.I recently found out my bio father and his mom had some kind of cancer they passsed from.