Knowledge about BRCA status was empowering and enabled participants to take control of their future in a meaningful way, and risk can be partially mitigated through lifestyle choices enabling a further sense of control.As my godmother said to me, who also had this gene mutation [...] information is power, and if you know you’ve got it you can do something about it [P5/46yrs/BRCA2/cancer]. Here, BRCA2 is linked to cancer.