Heart disease - am I the only one who shudders to hear its 3 times the killer BC is?

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I found myself sticking 2 fingers up at the TV tonight, and then felt very guilty!! British Heart Foundation (whom I support my OH having had heart attack in 2006) and Flora are running adverts telling women they are 3 times more likely to die from heart disease than BC. As a secondary lady, this really doesn’t help me!! Don’t know why, it just rubs it in somehow how ‘lucky’ I am to have BC!
Am I alone in feeling fed up?!

Nina

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My onc told me the other day when he changed me to Tamoxifen, that Tam can help prevent heart disease and lower cholesterol, so another reason we are ‘lucky’ :-/

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Yes a bit irresponsible of BHF I feel. It doesn’t give the whole picture
I could post at length about women and heart disease (from a professional standpoint) but won’t.
Disease processes should never be a case of pitching one against another in terms of ‘what’s worse’. All diseases are traumatic.

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I agree with you broomsticklady, I feel quite unsettled when that ad comes on, as for the one with the cancer on the smoking one, that makes me freak out and I can’t watch it as I have secondaries in my liver and have a very vivid picture of what is in my liver when I see the ad. I think I need to toughen up!!!

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I have just had a bit of a strop at this advert too. Don’t like it to be pointed out that more women die of heart disease than breast cancer, as it plays down the seriousness of the cancer. It’s not a competition as to which is the worst to have and i think it’s insensitive of the BHF to compare in this way. to be quite honest, i’m sick of seeing cancer adverts on the tv anyway when i’m just needing a little light entertainment as a form of escapism.

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Not sure how Tamoxifen helps prevent heart disease and reduces cholesterol, when it also increases risk of having a blood clot?

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Yeah. I also felt uncomfortable when this came on. I really don’t like the competitive edge to it… BC takes women away from their children and families at such different ages - at terribly young ages… I wish the ad hadn’t mentioned BC. Let it just be about heart disease…
Maggy

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I haven’t seen it, was it raising awareness or fundraising (or a bit of both)? It sounds like a bit of a risky approach to take either way.
I don’t like the new macmillan ad, but that may have had something to do with the fact that I’d just come back from finding out that they didn’t get clear margins from my WLE.

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Hi panacea

Hope your surgery goes well tomorrow. (((( big hugs)))) xx

LS