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kezmusc
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6 years ago

What the heck is going on with this BC thing????????

Ok, so I know the figures are 1 in 8 or 1 in 7 depending on which article you read but honestly.  When I was diagnosed I knew one of my friends sister had had breast cancer and my family history 3 gen...
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Afraser
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6 years ago
I grew up in Scotland - pea soup fogs, reeking coal chimneys everywhere, smoking in cinemas (I can still see the projection beam cutting through the smoke swirl). The Scottish diet (meat, potatoes, sugar and alcohol) scarcely helped. Of course no-one spoke of cancer out loud, so I have no recollection of what the stats were. None in my families to my knowledge. Who can tell?