I feel like a tiny person in the ocean while all around me I have family members either with cancer or dead from cancer. All I keep being told sorry you don’t meet the criteria.
I have young children and it scares me that I might die and never see them grow up. I was told from the age of 45 I could get routine mammogram but my doctors refused it. From now on I will never feel comfortable contacting the genetic team, they have not told me what the criteria is. I have breast cancer, blood cancer, non Hodgkin lymphoma, stomach cancer and lung cancer in my family.
It is on both maternal and paternal sides. I’m now looking to see if anywhere else can help put my mind a ease as well as my children, that are petrified they are going to lose their mum like I lost my mum when she was 53 years old she caught breast cancer at 45 years old.
"Felling let down"
About: Ninewells Hospital / Clinical Genetics Ninewells Hospital Clinical Genetics DD1 9SY
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