This is the easiest question of all for me. I was my mom's caretaker for 2 years. I literally went through her cancer diagnosis & treatment with her as well as taking her last breath with her. When my next family member was diagnosed & we found out that we carried the BRCA gene mutation, in my mind it wasn't an if for me, it was a when. I knew that I had to do everything that I could to not go down this road.(No woman in my family has lived past the age of 60.) I knew that for me giving up my breasts & ovaries was my only choice with the odds stacked so high against me. In MY opinion taking prophylactic measures was far easier than the choices I would have to make if I developed one cancer cell.
This is the easiest question of all for me. I was my mom's caretaker for 2 years. I literally went through her cancer diagnosis & treatment with her as well as taking her last breath with her. When my next family member was diagnosed & we found out that we carried the BRCA gene mutation, in my mind it wasn't an if for me, it was a when. I knew that I had to do everything that I could to not go down this road.(No woman in my family has lived past the age of 60.) I knew that for me giving up my breasts & ovaries was my only choice with the odds stacked so high against me. In MY opinion taking prophylactic measures was far easier than the choices I would have to make if I developed one cancer cell.
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I was my mom's caretaker for 2 years. I literally went through her cancer diagnosis & treatment with her as well as taking her last breath with her.
When my next family member was diagnosed & we found out that we carried the BRCA gene mutation, in my mind it wasn't an if for me, it was a when.
I knew that I had to do everything that I could to not go down this road.(No woman in my family has lived past the age of 60.)
I knew that for me giving up my breasts & ovaries was my only choice with the odds stacked so high against me. In MY opinion taking prophylactic measures was far easier than the choices I would have to make if I developed one cancer cell. This is the easiest question of all for me.
I was my mom's caretaker for 2 years. I literally went through her cancer diagnosis & treatment with her as well as taking her last breath with her.
When my next family member was diagnosed & we found out that we carried the BRCA gene mutation, in my mind it wasn't an if for me, it was a when.
I knew that I had to do everything that I could to not go down this road.(No woman in my family has lived past the age of 60.)
I knew that for me giving up my breasts & ovaries was my only choice with the odds stacked so high against me. In MY opinion taking prophylactic measures was far easier than the choices I would have to make if I developed one cancer cell.
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