OK - so I had a leg injury so “serious” that my leg was almost amputated at the thigh when I was 10.
Still no leg cancer…
Is there such a thing as leg cancer?? Just sharing my unfortunate experience. Im not really after a heated debate…
My friend who got leg cancer and now has an artificial limb would say “yes”.
Geez Ninja… is the nastiness really necessary?? I only shared my personal experience and opinion!
Thanks for reminding me why I have been giving the forums a very wide berth recently…!
Gingerbud
I don’t think Ninja was being nasty.
Ginger - I’m sorry if you thought that I am being nasty - that was not my intention - I’m expressing my opinion, just exactly like you did.
And my friend did lose her leg due to leg cancer and it had never been previously knocked or injured.
I’ve had loads of serious injuries - but never in my boob but that’s where I got cancer. There has been much research on this subject on the past and no connection has been medically proven.
When tragedy strikes, it is natural to try to find a reason. The bereaved person seeks someone to blame. Accidents happen. Sh*t happens. Cancer happens. It is my belief (MY belief, note) as a scientist/pragmatist that cancer cannot be always caused as a result of an injury, however, scientific research does demonstrate that a cancer can appear to be more apparent following an injury as one is more aware of the place where the injury occurred.
i dont think the original artical every suggested that one knock would cause cancer. it just said that if a cell needs to repair itself there is a small posibilty that the dna goes wrong and cancer starts, and if the same spot gets constantly injured then there is a bigger chance that cancer will start there.
with me it is definately not that i got cancer and remember a horse kick, head but or whatever,(you only have two breasts its 50% chance that the cancer is the same side as a past injury)
It is the fact that when i got home from hospital and had my first cup of tea, I automatically put it in its normal place–right on top of the scar (ouch) it is a pint mug of piping hot tea and because of the angle of how i sit the edge digs into that place where the lump is. It has probably done some minor damage over the decades that it has rested there and along with all the other factors that make us sprout a tumor caused it to develop in that spot.
My dog died from bone cancer, to the leg.
I’d love a plasma tv, a diet coke maccys d’s or even a bottle of bio oil, but I can’t, i’m skint!
Bless you Gingerbud, but at least spare a thought for some!
surely having surgery is the biggest trauma or injury to your body so you would think that we would all get recurrent cancer after surgery or loads of other cancers from everywhere we have had operations.
i have broken my left ankle twice, ribs once, right hand and right ring finger and today broken my left big toe… but no cancers in those places. i did have a breast abcess from being really crap at breast feeding but the cancer wasnt in the same place at the abcess.
i do know people who have had cancer in the same place as an injury but just like lots of things in life coincidences happen… i think for many people they are so keen to find a reason they got Bc or any cancer for that matter but really we still have no clue to the cause of most of them.
i think its a bit like the stress theory so many people say they think stress causes BC but different people deal with stressful situations in different ways and what one person finds stressful somebody else may not… but for pretty much everybody the most stressful thing they have had to deal with is getting breast cancer so you would expect us all to have recurrences whereas the majority will be cancer free for the rest of their life.
big loves Lulubelle xxx
Just to clarify, my post said that in my opinion, injury ‘may be a factor’ not a direct, single cause etc etc. I really don’t think we can compare the breasts to legs Btw but that’s just my opinion… And bless u ettilks (sp?)- bone cancer in the leg is a very different thing to leg cancer…
There are ways + means of sharing opinions in a polite + unpatronising way (as i did)- after all we are all in this together. Sadly, it’s becoming increasingly common on here to be shouted down by members who find it necessary to be rude. In my opinion, there is no place for bad attitudes on these forums.
Gingerbud,
I totally agree with your last comment regarding how we post. I have been using this site for 8 years and after reading some on the posts yesterday felt a little bit shocked in how some of the posts were a little impolite to say the least.
We all have bad days, some more than most but if something gets to us move on to the next post, you don’t need to comment.
drat!!! I knew I should not wear yellow wellies to bed when drinking tea
Ont wishing to put my own interpretation on anyone elses comments, but…
I think we can all be a little over-sensitive at times. The problem with written communications is that it can’t be put in context with the person’s tone of voice or expression. So I’m sure that sometimes, what was intended to be a matter of fact, or even a light-hearted, comment can appear brusque or harsh in black and white!
Hugs to anyone that needs one.
Dx
Ta.
Eltticks: I must have cancer of the arse cheeks, sat here on this laptop all day… just made me laugh and nearly choke on my coffee xx
My friend who got leg cancer and now has an artificial limb would say “yes”: I read this comment and didn’t get any nastiness from it- a question was asked and an answer given- I don’t post regularly but felt I had to on this as no malice was meant . When I joined the forum the first thing I noticed was that everyone was honest in their posts - why hide anything ? what’s the point of a forum and posting questions then? I mean is honesty not the best “medicine” ?
I have not found anything offensive in the posts on this thread. Just a matter of style. There are people who disagree with my daft ideas on this post that have agreed with things I said on other matters. Its all part of healthy debate, and yes sometimes its hard to get the right tone when you rattle off a reply.
there was a thread on diet once that got so heated the moderators had to come in and tell everyone to calm down and treat each other with respect, dont think this thread has got anywhere near that.
Gingerbud, I wasn’t going to post on here any more but…
I’m sorry you feel like you do, it’s a shame when we are all in the same boat and need helping hands.
I didn’t mean to sound flippant and you read it wrongly.
I was upset by your reply to the leg cancer comment because it has personally affected my friend, and thought your retort was a little flippant, too. My friend with the leg cancer - she was in her 20s and has been through hell and back - her GP refused to refer her for 6 months, just gave her ibuprofen, wouldn’t listen. The cancer started in her knee bone but then spread to her whole leg. By that time, it was too late and her leg was amputated above the knee very quickly to save her life.
I have apologised already in my post above.
The last thing I want is to fall out with anybody, please can we move forwards and not hold a grudge.
I hope this doesn’t lead to any more upset; I’m having a very tearful day today.
To get back to the original post…I remember my grandmother being very concerned as she had bumped her breast and bruised it and was worried about cancer, this was back in the 60’s. She never contracted the disease though and yet I used to do homecare for a lady who had been knocked over by a car and she died shortly after from lung cancer, which hadn’t been diagnosed at the time of the accident. The mother of a friend died from lung cancer a few months after falling backwards heavily on an icy pavement. My mother died from from liver cancer 10 days after being diagnosed after going through an awful lot of stress and upset in her life. I don’t think these accidents or incidents caused the cancer but I do believe that any cancer that is in the body can be triggered by trauma.
Hi
If it was trauma, wouldn’t boxers, martial arts practitioners, be at increased risk of cancers along with anyone with any impact injury, surgery, invasive dentistry. I am not dismissing the idea altogether, but if feels way more complicated.
I vividly remember an old cleaner ( male, irish in his 60’'s- lol) at a school I worked at in London, warning me years ago not to wear my bras too tight, as it would give me cancer and low and behold I go and get it 15 years later on the ridge under my breast where my (poorly fitting) underwire bra used to sit. I have since discovered that despite the number of women wearing underwired bras, this is an unusual place to get it and of all the things I blame for my bc, my bras is not one of them.
As for the comments on the thread, I hope we don’t forget just how big and heavy our bag of hammers can be on some days. There are times I cannot even look at this site for fear I will explode, cry, climb under my duvet or start an argument. Please can we give each other the benefit of the doubt, because I really hope no one would
deliberately mean to hurt someone else’s feelings, but we do not know each others life circumstances, so comments are easily misunderstood.
Ps my grandmother who died of bc had a wooden leg, her family thought the bc was because she fell a lot, my mum thought it was because she worried a lot. Who knows? Stress, trauma.? Shouldn’t every war casualty have it?
Debx
Hi Midge I take your point but the cancer has to be there in the first place for it to grow. Of course cancer cannot be caused by impact, but I do believe it is exacerbated by it if the cancerous cells are there to start with.