Talking Points for Patients

Collect the following information about both your mother’s and father’s sides of the family and share it with your health care provider—

• Number of relatives with cancer and their relationship to you.
• Type of cancer diagnosed (such as colon or breast).
• Ages when the cancers were diagnosed.
• Whether anyone had cancer of both breasts.
• Whether anyone had both breast and ovarian cancer.
• Presence of breast cancer in a male relative.
• Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish ancestry.