Breast Cancer In My Family

Today my family faces a number of health issues, mainly as a result of poor diet, lack of exercise and lifestyle choices, but also genetics play a big role in my family’s healthy life. The first one in my family who I’ve known, who got diagnosed with cancer in 2007, was my great grandma, she barely took care of herself, as in poor diet, but did survive a high risk surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and mastectomy on her left breast. My other grandma wasn’t diagnosed with cancer but the doctors did find benign nodes on both breasts, which she got removed because they found cancer cells on them. Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, when cancer develops cells become more and more abnormal, old or damaged cells survive when they should die, and new cells form when they are not needed. These extra cells can divide without stopping and may form growths called tumors. …show more content…
Recently my grandmother did a genetic test which can only be done by taking a sample of blood, cheek swab, or tissue in order to analyze a person’s genes. This genetic test came positive leaving my mom, aunt and their future kids like me with a high risk of breast cancer in the future. Some breast cancer symptoms include a lump in the breast, bloody discharge from the nipple, and changes in the shape or texture of the nipple or breast. But sometimes patients get no symptoms at all and they can only find out once they get a