I was adopted as a baby. In 1994 I searched for my birth mother and discovered that she was already deceased. She was only 52 when she died from breast cancer. Two years later I searched for my birth aunts and found one living 15 minutes away from me. She told me that my grandmother, her mother, had also died of breast cancer. I don't have any photos of either my mother or my grandmother to post. If I didn't live in a country that allows access to birth records and if I hadn't searched I would never have known about my family history of breast cancer. With this knowledge I can at least be more vigilant than I would have been otherwise.

Anonymous
Brisbane, Australia