Susan Berger
She endured a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and years of the hormone therapy drug Tamoxifen to kill the cancer and keep it at bay — or so Berger thought.Courtesy Susan Berger The genetic mutation was PALB2, which some experts call the third most important breast cancer gene. It increases the risk for breast cancer by 58% for those with a family history and 33% for those with no family history. It also increases a person’s risk for ovarian andDoctors started testing for the PALB2 gene mutation in 2014, five years after Berger underwent genetic screening.
Additional lesser known gene mutation: ATM, Chek2 and NBN. Genetic testing is powerful but few studies have been done on these mutations that affect both women and men.
I was BI-RADS 5; highly suspicious of breast cancer. Though, the biopsy resulted something else and the cause would shock anyone...
Imagine the 60 million women in US who may get breast, ovarian cancer but will be helpless because they can't afford US for-profit healthcare.