Dear All,
Breast Cancer Care have a publication “Breast Cancer risk- what it means to you” I have attached the link below.
breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/bcc_risk_final_0.pdf
I hope this may be helpful.
Kindest regards
Janet
BCC Facilitator
Breakthrough BC have information on weight and BC. The evidence is that being overweight increases risk after menopause. Interestingly what it also says is that being overweight prior to menopause may slightly decrease risk! Didn’t work for me though!!
Here is the link and there is a pdf on the page which explains it all in more detail.
breakthrough.org.uk/breast_cancer/breast_cancer_facts/risk_factors_general_information/weight.html
Elinda x
Lyn Redgrave did ads and commercials for WeightWatchers in the US after she lost a lot of weight with them (35lbs I believe). She had also suffered from bulimia in her youth and was quite plump back in the 60s when she did all the films like “Georgy Girl” and “Smashing Time”. In the case of Dina Rabinovitch, apparently she had her lump for 3 years before she went to get it checked. She just said that she was too busy. At the time she died I was still going through treatment and I remember being very, very angry when I read that.
I think fear plays a big part in why some people say they are to busy.My dad told me after my mum died that he kept telling my mum to go to the doctors when she had a very tiny lump, she just kept making excuse after excuse why she didn’t go,in the end she lied about going and told my dad that the doctor had said it was scar tissue from a abscess she had.My mum finely did get it checked almost 4 years later but of course by then it was to late.My mum said she was scared of what they might find.
best wishes Mel xx
Some people are so paralysed with fear their course of action is to take no action. My wise and kind oncology doctor told me this happens all the time. Long before my own diagnosis a friend of a friend was found to have died during the night. It was only after her death her family discovered she had an obvious breast tumour and had died of liver secondaries. She was so young, in her 30’s and I remember feeling so sad that she had been living in fear and had felt unable to see a doctor. My own Mum died from ovarian cancer just 2 weeks after she was diagnosed. I don’t know if fear stopped her from going to seek help or from talking to us about it. I suspect she was very frightened, we had no idea she was ill until she was admitted to hospital. I could not feel any anger only sorrow that I suspect she had known something was amiss but had felt too frightened to seek help and had hoped the symptoms would just go away.
It makes me so sad to think of the fear mum had, and knowing that if she had gone to the doctors earlier she may have survived cancer.
Mel x
I had an aunt who lived for 35 years beyond aggressive breast cancer. Her mother had died of it years before, then her sister got it in the 90s. Her sister didn’t tell anyone, not even her children as she didn’t want to worry them. Sadly, she died 2 years later.
that is just so sad
even if the outcome wasn’t affected, to be living alone with that fear must just be terrible. There’s a part of me thinks that its a valid choice, to take no action, and each of us makes such decisions on a complex and personal basis, but its still terribly sad. Especially if its born of that paralysing fear
love, monica xx
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breastcancer.org/risk/understanding.jsp
The link to a very useful resource for understanding risk - both relative and absolute.
Hi anyone had a portocath fitted and if so is it better than a picc line ??? Jane x
I had a look at the link, but it’s more useful for women who are on drugs like Tamoxifen. I was Her2+ with no hormonal involvement.
Really? I think it just gives an idea of what very different things absolute and relative risk are. It uses hormone therapy as an example but the same theory applies with Herceptin - or weight gain -or alcohol use.
Janey23 - can’t help I’m afraid. Perhaps try posting a new thread about it?
Fear is so strong in some women ,I find that so hard to understand . Four ladies ( myself included ) were dx within a month of each other , we all live within a very small area.
Because of that most of my friends immediately saw their doctors to ask to mamogramms, but one good friend just cannot bring herself to do it .
Her best friend of 40 years died of BC last year , she had left it to late after finding a lump , I was dx in November last year yet she won´t go . She said she does´nt like doctors and is frightened of pain . I explained it´s not painful ,just uncomfortable , ( ok , so I lie ! ) but she won´t go . I really find that so hard to understand.