Re: It didn't hurt (OT)

On Jan 14, 12:08 am, bastXXXe...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
hopitus <hopi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From what I know
> about risk factors, that "BRAC" 1 and 2 stuff (some gene or other) in
> your makeup is the Big Bad "Eight-Ball" (play pool?) of breast ca; the

Do people just ask for a genetic test for that? Or is that only
necessary if there's a family history? As far as I know, nobody in
my family has had cancer of any kind, going back 3 generations.

Nonetheless, there's an 11% chance I can get it just for being female.
And the region I live in has an even higher percentage, I think it's
1 in 8.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

You know, my sis told me the same thing during the year before she
died about
Bay Area having a higher percentage of breast ca than other regions of
the
country; I'd forgotten it till you said that. No one knows why.
About the BRAC test: yes, you can request it but it's a Pandora's Box
just
like some test for a disease (I think Huntingdon's something-or-other)
that
makes you certifiable insane later in life....bottom line: do you
*really* want
to know? At least the mastectomy seems to be something positive to
stave
off breast ca (which as former medical worker I don't understand how
removing
the offending organ could remove a cancer threat...this makes no sense
to me
as cancer is usually an invasive kinda disease and spreads silently
giving no
warning many times till its too late (example: lung ca: merciless but
q quick
killer and relatively painless).) Anyway...that Huntingdon whatever
has no hope
of staving off it is a sure thing to happen whether you know about it
or not.
Now: the reason most people who would be affected by diseases such as
these tests reveal probability of: health coverage and life
insurancce, with
the power they wield, would just get a whiff of your test results, if
positive,
and.....need I say more?.
.

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