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breast cancer

ARGH! Joey's THIRD trip out of bed. GO TO BED NOW! But mommy I was just blowing you a kiss............FINE! NOW GO TO BED!LOL

My sister went to a breast cancer seminar last night. OUCH OUCH OUCH! Let me list the risk factors:

3rd generation (yup my mom and her mom have had it)

bilateral OR 2 different kinds of cancer (mom wanted to cover this one well and got a different kind of cancer in each breast)

melanoma is related to BC (thank you dad for contributing so as not to feel left out)

And I think there was one more, but it escapes. We hit the 4 biggies afterall. Sheesh. Good news is that Bush signed some law stating that genetics can NOT make you unelidgible for ins sometime in 2009. There is a genetics test that my mom can take (2 show which genes are mutated on her) for $3100. My sister and I would pay $350 and we could find out if we have the same mutation. That was all the info that I got from her. I need to see if there was more.