Hiya,
I am 53 and had my lumpectomy last year. There is no breast cancer in my family on either side. I would have loved to have had kids but seemed to forget to until at 35 my biological clock was yelling! Had a few long term relationships and by agreement didn't use protection. Had a menstrual cycle that was extremely precise all my life and basically just stopped around 50. Never had any gynae issues. Very minor menopause symptoms - just hot flushes for a month or two. Had a miscarriage when 37 at 7 weeks. My sister is 51 and extremely fertile! My mum had me at 30. Not sure why it didn't work for me other than a long history of depression and anxiety since 26. Don't know if that could have stopped me falling pregnant. I also read about the nuns and their high incidences of breast and ovarian cancer. It would be interesting to see a statistic re childlessness and chance of occurrence of breast cancer. Even though we know from our sisters on here that some have many kids, others are into amazingly healthy diets and some are athletes pre breast cancer. Statistics on all this would form a wider picture. My feeling with my own chemo onc is that her response to my questions was 'it doesn't matter how you got it, you have it' - she is very busy tho and not into bedside manner!;)
