After finding out I was a BRCA2 gene carrier, and having lost 8 close female family members to breast or ovarian cancer, I decided to have a bilateral mastectomy and oophorectomy with breast reconstruction. This decision turned out to be the right choice since when having a pre-op MRI it was discovered I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). I was shocked since I had a mammogram only 3 months...