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laurab
1 year agoMember
Breast Cancer and Women who have not had children
I am new here and just been diagnosed with stage 2 cancer. Been going through all the usual: How could this happen to ME with my lifestyle etc." Futile. Then a friend reminded me of the statistics of...
laurab
1 year agoMember
Thanks all for your responses. I don't like the name "Nun's Disease" I hope it fades into oblivion. It's so insulting. But I can understand how it started out. well I suppose that women who have had children and who have breast cancer can say exactly the same in reverse can't they? They can say: "I did all the right things, I had children, women who don't have a higher risk so why me when I have had 3 or 5 or 12?" The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is to go down that rabbit hole. Cancer is cells reproducing and dividing fullstop.