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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone who tested negative (for BRCA etc). but still have BC in the family consider getting a prophylactic mastectomy?[/quote] I didn’t, because there are screenings that can be done for breast cancer. But my mother did die from ovarian cancer and I did get a prophylactic oophorectomy. It was not quite as straightforward as it might sound, as I was diagnosed with hormone-sensitive dcis, so the oophorectomy served to both reduce my future breast cancer risk and avoid ovarian cancer. But even before the dcis diagnosis I was strongly considering an oophorectomy. The diagnosis just pushed it along. There are no good screening tools for ovarian cancer and it is often found in the later stages. [/quote]
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