My mother and her three sisters always went for their mammograms together. My mother had breast cancer first, age 53. She joked when they all went the next year that her mammogram should be half price, since she had one removed. That year her youngest sister was diagnosed. Then 10 years later mom had to have the second breast removed.
The year after my mother's second surgery, I started having my mammograms, you guessed it, I too had cancer, at 46, I choose to have a double mastectomy, not wanting to worry about it like mom had for 10 years. Mine was found early, SO, I feel very lucky.
Mom died at the age of 83 from radical breast cancer cells in her colon. This is another test I will start having now, Since this is "A Family Thing".
Miami, OK