daughter very you know got herself tested undiscovered she does not have the gene mutation martina suncor binion on the other hand decided not to have the test this currently no effective breast cancer screening for men of his age so he decided he was better off not knowing. the patient we just saw in our report and that was getting genetically tested because there were a lot of family members who had ovarian cancer and breast cancer in my office i sometimes see patients with different kinds of cancer in the family can this also be inherited well what we generally i think have to consider is that cancer is a common disease a relatively common disease so everyone will have someone or know someone who within the wider family will have suffered from cancer i guess but nevertheless they are indeed families that have a relatively high occurrence of different types of cancers so for those families we think it has a genetic origin but because they are due to many different types of genes it is very difficult at the moment to test. and we cannot really do reliable testing to give you a risk for these ki