My grandmother died from breast cancer, mother from a VERY aggressive ovarian cancer. If anyone is interested, I belong to the Gilda Radner Ovarian Registry and if you or someone in your family has a strain like this, please look into her (Gene Wilder’s) registry. It’s a valuable registry that is searching (and found several genes) for genes responsible for some strains of genetic cancers.
I don't know how to go about it but FReepers could use a ping list for breast cancer.
What can be done about this except know in enough advance to remove the afflicted parts?
My niece who was still in her 30s had to get both breasts removed, etc. due to her father’s mother (not my side of the family). Now her two daughters may face something like this in the future - hard to think about but the alternative is worse.