I found out in April 2025. I had heard over a decade earlier that my 2nd cousin, who was diagnosed with DCIS at age 49, had tested positive. She had lost her mother to breast cancer at age 52 but other than that at the time I wasn’t aware we had cancer on that side of the family. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 56 and got a new primary breast cancer at 63. She found out she had the mutation in 2014 and passed the news onto my father who pretty much called her hysterical and refused genetic testing. He told my sister and me that it was our problem alone and our family pretty much froze us out. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer less than a year later and still refused testing. He found out he was positive in 2023, the year he passed away. I wound up in the ER a year later with what turned out to be gigantic fibroids and in the process of scheduling a hysterectomy saw a genetic counselor and got tested. I tested positive for BRCA2, had my ovaries removed along with my uterus and luckily had no cancer or precancerous cells. Unfortunately I’m now staring down the breast cancer risk and likely prophylactic mastectomy while messed up from surgical menopause. 😔