BRCA1 is in my family too, I'm positive for it and going through screening which I didn't know I was entitled to until recently, after 3 years

All it takes is one person not to tell you :/

great, so now all the accumulated lidar maps of peoples homes and candid shots of people fresh out of their showers will wind up in Private Equity Funds' hands

I’m so sorry to read this. Sending you kind thoughts and hopes

Hi when I was diagnosed I did tests but genetic test is extra. I had grt UPenn insurance then so perhaps they didn’t have $$$ or ins did ‘t cover.

I’m sorry to hear they have marker but my approach was find good doctors and trust them. Early diag and knowing risk allows you to be proactive now.

Ha! (not in the funny way)

As a brother of a sister who passed, and the ex-husband of an ex-wife and father of a daughter who have both (so far) survived, I knew what you meant immediately.

I simply misread your typo in the opposite way you typo'd it and knew what you meant.

Anyway, it drives me nuts, because the testing program for BRCA1 & BRCA2 is covered completely by Medicare and they went years after a very serious cancer diagnosis without anyone raising the issue of testing

1. There’s no system in universal use
2. There’s no good systems
3. Most healthcare hospital level systems rely on DOS programming & pagers
4. Licensing costs, patient safety, data protection and resulting overheads aren’t likely to change that any time soon.
5. YMMV, but sadly that’s where we are🙁

No money in it.
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And all of his offspring had children as well, and all those children of the daughters who tested positive for BRCA2 now need testing too. Could’ve had genetic counselling for family planning before having children if they’d known earlier

Dad died of pancreatic cancer in 2004. But it’s taken another 21 years for anyone to go “oh, could’ve been the BRCA2 gene” and start testing his descendants

Eg. Patient notifies of Ashkenazi heritage in a session and automatically a genetic testing entitlement is flagged in the system for GP’s to notify patients?

We talk so much about AI helping practitioners to transcribe - despite serious risks - but why isn’t testing entitlement notification for patients automated?

Another 3 years passed before my younger sister got diagnosed, and then my half sister tested positive nearly six months later

When I learned about their cancer diagnosis I got free testing via Peter Mac for BRAC1 & BRAC2. But they didn’t get tested for it then, just very targeted testing for a different type of cancer

What I don’t understand is why they weren’t offered Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutation screening when they went through cancer diagnosis last time