More detailed good news

As previously reported, I don't have either the two mutations one can have on the BRCA1 gene, nor the one mutation one can have on the BRCA2 gene.

This means that my ovaries (useless though they may be) are safe for now, and that the odds that cancer will recur if I only have a lumpectomy are... well, hang on a minute.

There is a more complex test they will do on the whole BR gene sequence, to see if I have either a known anomaly (and thus may still want to consider mastectomy) or even an anomaly on which there's insufficient data for a ruling. (Only about 4% of people turn out to have an "insufficient evidence to convict" gene variant, and more than half of those are ruled to be normal as more data is collected.)

All of this is a great relief, the way that, well, hearing you have an easily-cured cancer is a great relief. And I am grateful to live in a time when having this kind of information is even possible. I really feel I'm making an informed decision.