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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 generations ago. That was it.
I would see the bookings come through at work averaging one or two breast surgeries a week and sometimes there would be a few weeks with none at all.
Now. WOW! 4 - 6 a week with the majority being 45-55yrs and a definite rise in under 40's.
One of my friends mother in law diagnosed last year and now her mother last week. my daughters friends mother, a close work collegue a couple of months ago, a collegues sister a week after that, a collegues daughter around the same time. One of the senior medical consultants. A client drops a horse off to me and has to run or she'll be late for radiation!
Bugger me. I get in to work today and ask where so and so is. "Oh, haven't you heard" She's been diagnosed last week and is off for bilat mx and ax clearance. All of these people I know in my little circle diagnosed within the last 12 months.
Seriously what the heck is going on?
I would see the bookings come through at work averaging one or two breast surgeries a week and sometimes there would be a few weeks with none at all.
Now. WOW! 4 - 6 a week with the majority being 45-55yrs and a definite rise in under 40's.
One of my friends mother in law diagnosed last year and now her mother last week. my daughters friends mother, a close work collegue a couple of months ago, a collegues sister a week after that, a collegues daughter around the same time. One of the senior medical consultants. A client drops a horse off to me and has to run or she'll be late for radiation!
Bugger me. I get in to work today and ask where so and so is. "Oh, haven't you heard" She's been diagnosed last week and is off for bilat mx and ax clearance. All of these people I know in my little circle diagnosed within the last 12 months.
Seriously what the heck is going on?
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- You know , it’s funny I have the reverse, I don’t know ANYONE else with BC , strange since it is 1 in 8, I wonder where everyone else is, I feel like a freak show :(
Come to think of it, I’m also the youngest person having rads at the moment by a country mile, I’m 55, I feel like a freak show there too, it’s a bit depressing, what’s wrong with me?!
Not that I wish it on anyone..... - When my mother got bc at 63 she asked the oncologist what caused it and he said ‘ you forgot to put the wheely bin out in 1976’🤣 So, I guess that means ‘absolutely no idea’.
- @Keeping_positive1 Or The Boogie :D
- Interestingly my mum was on HRT for many years and she didnt get bc.
My dad was in the agent orange and he got Prostate cancer later in life. - Why don't we just Blame it on Rio :D
- What is statistically supposed to be a risk such as early menarche, (first period), no pregnancies, little or no breastfeeding, overweight, alcohol, family history...(to list a few) certainly didn't apply to me. First period age 14, three pregnancies, fed my second child for 2 years 4 months, fed my third child for 2 years 1 month. (First baby...a long story, n/a here. Weighed between 50 kg and 60 kg since late teens. (diagnosed at 57), non drinker apart from champers at weddings and so on. No significant family history except for one maternal aunt who had breast cancer, but died of a stroke. Only on the pill for about one year and never had HRT.
- Diagnosed at 40. Never smoked, never drink alcohol, never on the pill, within healthy weight range, no close family history yet I got BC.
- Hey, Agent Orange is a reasonable stab in the dark!! Sorry, no idea what treatment induced menopause may do (other than a side effect of getting rid of bc!), only that when I was diagnosed, approximately 75% of bc cases were in post menopausal women. That figure may have changed, but even to my sceptical mind, it was a pretty strong indicator of where something may go pear shaped. I stick to my (untrained) opinion that cancer is probably due to a combination of factors - which will naturally vary considerably individually. So chemo induced menopause may be a significantly different ingredient in the different potential triggers in different people. Clear as mud!
- Yes @Mightystar I am the same, my life is spent around cancery type stuff. Blah, maybe I need a new job it appears to be catching like the flu where I am.
@Afraser I find the menopause thing a bit interesting. If the risk goes up post menopausal, does that mean all of those that were put into menopause by the treatment are now at more risk...yes or no. All the hormone positive people are trying to keep oestrogen low and mimic menopause yet the risk increases sharply after natural menopause. Go figurePeople are living longer now than ever before. And one of the risks for most cancers is simply getting older. But it should be noted that the 1 in 8 figure is a lifetime risk – and that during a lifetime, risk changes. For breast cancer, risk increases sharply from around the time of the menopause – see the table below:
Up to and including age Risk (women) 29 1 in 2000 39 1 in 215 49 1 in 50 59 1 in 22 69 1 in 13 Lifetime risk 1 in 8
P.s my mother blames Agent Orange.... - @Brenda5
Well I like your mother's comment. Sums it all up - no one knows!
