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What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
Hi @wingman
Lots of good suggestions. What plagues everyone of course is what caused my cancer and could I have done something to avoid it? For those with a high family incidence, there is a clearer if unhelpful answer, but many people castigate themselves for doing (or not doing) all sorts of things that may have made little difference. If cancer is caused by a cluster of triggers coming together, we may still not be able to answer this for some time yet. But the 'possible trigger' vs 'bad luck' debate may limit the adoption of better preventative actions when the benefits are still uncertain.
Lots of good suggestions. What plagues everyone of course is what caused my cancer and could I have done something to avoid it? For those with a high family incidence, there is a clearer if unhelpful answer, but many people castigate themselves for doing (or not doing) all sorts of things that may have made little difference. If cancer is caused by a cluster of triggers coming together, we may still not be able to answer this for some time yet. But the 'possible trigger' vs 'bad luck' debate may limit the adoption of better preventative actions when the benefits are still uncertain.