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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,
great to have you here.I’ve had bc twice since 2003 so lots of time to ask questions and meet lots of wonderful women on the bc journey.
* I can’t understand why stats aren’t kept on metastatic bc
* I suspect the stats/%on bc recurring in the same Breast after a lumpectomy is a lot higher than I was told back in 2003
*Could there be a genetic propensity to develop bc if there is strong family history of any cancer?
* Could constant stress be a contributing factor to bc developing?
Tonya
great to have you here.I’ve had bc twice since 2003 so lots of time to ask questions and meet lots of wonderful women on the bc journey.
* I can’t understand why stats aren’t kept on metastatic bc
* I suspect the stats/%on bc recurring in the same Breast after a lumpectomy is a lot higher than I was told back in 2003
*Could there be a genetic propensity to develop bc if there is strong family history of any cancer?
* Could constant stress be a contributing factor to bc developing?
Tonya