My genetic counselor did get back to me. He said no, they'll only test for the BRCA mutations. So then I asked the sticky question, any idea on when I'd hear about the three mutations I wanted them to run first?
He's very quick to reply. Turns out, he answered my question from somewhere else. He went back to Paul Strauss, the cancer center and looked up my file.
They contacted me on July 28th, while I was in the U.S. I never got the letter and he knew looking at it. I would have mentioned it if I had. I was obviously oblivious to this fact!
Another email informing me of this. Oh panic! Here I was, thinking I was going to get my results in February and they have them!! Oh no. Can you come on a Monday afternoon? I can come this Monday if possible.
He used a term in French that means "targeted research". I assume he's talking about those three mutations. I hope I was understanding him correctly. The one glitch he mentioned in passing, at the interview in June, is that they have to give the results in person. No phone calling. If they did those three mutations first, I'd have to come back twice; once for the preliminary results and then again, when they finish the full panel.
Not a problem. I live 10 minutes away. I'll come twice.
To be honest, for me, this is the "real" result. If I am positive, it'll be one of these mutations. I really doubt it could be some rough mutation that somehow floated around my family. I really don't have the heavy family history that BRCA families do. There are the occasional stories of some woman doing the test as protocol and it pops up positive, with little or no story.
I had to drop Talia off at school and called Paul Strauss in a hurry. No! Everyone was gone. The secretary wasn't there. I couldn't make an apt.
Then, another message in my inbox. Would 2:30pm work for me? Heck yes!!!! I'm there!!
I'm going to back up this story a bit to add a little detail. This all got started when I watched a video of a presentation that a BRCA positive woman gave at Stanford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLWIrCndjhuYs3Ffe2o-03llN8uuzIOTtv&v=ZbDizz8X6BQ
At about the 3 minute mark, she mentions these other mutations found. I googled them and quite frankly, don't really understand. They're not on the BRCA gene and I wasn't clear on how they function.
Then the woman in the video comes on one of the BRCA private pages on FB and I was able to recount this. Her video got the ball rolling! How many months would I have waited before getting up the gumption to find out what the deal was on the preliminary results??
He's very quick to reply. Turns out, he answered my question from somewhere else. He went back to Paul Strauss, the cancer center and looked up my file.
They contacted me on July 28th, while I was in the U.S. I never got the letter and he knew looking at it. I would have mentioned it if I had. I was obviously oblivious to this fact!
Another email informing me of this. Oh panic! Here I was, thinking I was going to get my results in February and they have them!! Oh no. Can you come on a Monday afternoon? I can come this Monday if possible.
He used a term in French that means "targeted research". I assume he's talking about those three mutations. I hope I was understanding him correctly. The one glitch he mentioned in passing, at the interview in June, is that they have to give the results in person. No phone calling. If they did those three mutations first, I'd have to come back twice; once for the preliminary results and then again, when they finish the full panel.
Not a problem. I live 10 minutes away. I'll come twice.
To be honest, for me, this is the "real" result. If I am positive, it'll be one of these mutations. I really doubt it could be some rough mutation that somehow floated around my family. I really don't have the heavy family history that BRCA families do. There are the occasional stories of some woman doing the test as protocol and it pops up positive, with little or no story.
I had to drop Talia off at school and called Paul Strauss in a hurry. No! Everyone was gone. The secretary wasn't there. I couldn't make an apt.
Then, another message in my inbox. Would 2:30pm work for me? Heck yes!!!! I'm there!!
I'm going to back up this story a bit to add a little detail. This all got started when I watched a video of a presentation that a BRCA positive woman gave at Stanford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLWIrCndjhuYs3Ffe2o-03llN8uuzIOTtv&v=ZbDizz8X6BQ
At about the 3 minute mark, she mentions these other mutations found. I googled them and quite frankly, don't really understand. They're not on the BRCA gene and I wasn't clear on how they function.
Then the woman in the video comes on one of the BRCA private pages on FB and I was able to recount this. Her video got the ball rolling! How many months would I have waited before getting up the gumption to find out what the deal was on the preliminary results??
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