My 24 year old daughter has visited her doctor as she has concerns about her breast. She’s noticed one incidence of discharge and what she thought was a mark on her breast.
The doctor has examined her and found a pea size lump. She has been referred for tests.
She said/asked ‘I’ve no family history of breast cancer?’.
I haven’t kept it a secret, (she’s forgotten) but both her grandmothers had breast cancer, my mother in her mid-80s and her father’s mother late 70s. My mother responded to Tamoxifen and lived another 10 years and died of old age. Her paternal grandmother had a mastectomy and lived another 10 years as well, dying of heart failure.
I know there is nothing to be done (but worry!) until she has tests and she can now tell the doctors of the family history. By chance I have just had a regular mammogram all clear, I’m 63.
Doctors have said to me I can take HRT as my mother had breast cancer at a late age, it’s not relevant.
Is it relevant in my daughter’s case?