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Post by Mary on Feb 5, 2009 10:19:23 GMT -5
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Post by cara3 on Feb 5, 2009 18:14:32 GMT -5
Gee, Mary. This is exciting to realize there is at least one way to prevent breast cancer. I sure wish I knew what caused my sister, mother and me to get it. They did not take hormones and I only took them for 9 months. Kitty
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Post by josie on Feb 5, 2009 20:28:34 GMT -5
There are other things besides the hormone. Smoking is one. There is the hereidity for some women. I took hormones for almost 5 yrs. and even when the claim was made about it causing breast cancer. My mother was on them for years. Don't even remember when she said she started them. I know about 2 yrs after her stroke the dr. took her off them. I was hearing more and more bad things about the breast cancer and the hormone. So I stop taking them. My gyn dr. got upset with me about it, he accused my primary dr. for me stopping them, I told him, no, she hasn't said a thing to me. I did this on my own.
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Post by Mary on Feb 6, 2009 11:32:46 GMT -5
Kitty, Like you and your family, I never took hormones, didn't have any family history, never smoked, no risk factors at all, yet I got IDC when I was 38 yrs. old... But at least they are making some progress in finding causes.
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Post by Grits on Feb 6, 2009 22:49:56 GMT -5
Ditto Mary and Kitty...never took a hormone in my life, never smoked a cigarette... no breast cancer...or any kind of cancer in my family for at least 3 generations...lots of heart trouble though...that's what I was sure I was going to be dx with in my "senior citizen years"...never once worried for a second that I would have Breast Cancer...go figure!!!!! Great article though, thanks for sharing! Jane
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Post by Ruth on Feb 7, 2009 9:30:56 GMT -5
Well, I must be the "bad girl" of the group.lol......I took hormones (both birth control pills in the 60's and HRT in the 80's/90's), drank and smoked.....However, there was no history of Breast Cancer in my family.
Thanks for the Article Mary
Hugs, Ruth
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