For some time, my sister, who lost her husband to a lung tumour, had been looking into the high incidence of tumours in my mother’s family, and she realised it was no accident. Here is the family tree: So my sister asked my mother to have herself tested for the Brca1 or Brca2 germline mutation. Since Angelina Jolie made her mutation public, and chose to undergo a preventive mastectomy, there’s been a lot more discussion on the subject. The debate has become less heated, the reactions less simplistic. This all took place around the start of 2017, or maybe slightly earlier. Given the frequency of…
