Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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I played in the fog from the mosquito trucks. I had two years of high school biology where the fumes from formaldehyde were so thick you could see them. I college I had to distill benzene in an experiment that lasted two weeks. Benzene is a heave carcinogen. In my middle years from 40-50 I drank a lot of wine. I quit my job and quit drinking. Perhaps the job was a carcinogen. Certainly good California wine couldn't be a problem.
But the trigger could have been low vitamin D for the last 5 years. I was at 22 ng/ml but now I am at 54 ng/ml.
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Hmmmmmm, notself, all that wine - maybe you're still in a fog??? But CA wine, no, guess not - can't be that!
But I'm beginning to believe that so many of you played in the mosquito fog and then I think you breathed it on me and, second-hand, I got BC. Yeah, that's my story. A class-action lawsuit, me against all of you who gave me BC! Leah, don't bother to ask your sons, I found a way to get my fortune (and didn't have to buy a lottery ticket).
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Heck, Patoo, I'll join you in the class action suit - no mosquito trucks where I grew up (NYC).
Maybe they figured the mosquitos couldn't survive the pollution?
Leah
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Hey Leah! I grew up in Harlem - you can bet those pesky mosquitos knew better than to hang out there.
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Hey, patoo! My dear sweet friend taught elementary school in harlem probably about 20 years ago...her voice is like an angel, she is the sweetest person in the world. She loved it! Now she teaches at my kids' Christian school. Best teacher I ever met!
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salty sweat that rolls down off your forehead and into the corner of your mouth before you can get out a cloth to wipe it. salty sweat cause BC.
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Patoo, you've figured it out! I havene't sweated since chemo.
Leah
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I am in the garden weeding and moving rock. Sweating is not a problem for me. In June I start what is supposed to be a detox diet for two weeks. It sounds more like a colonoscopy prep than a diet, but it is time to lose some of my menopause weight. Between sweating in the garden and the diet I should get rid of all the residual benzene and DDT that is wandering around my system. Perhaps I'll get rid of some of the mercury from all the tuna fish sandwiches I have eaten.
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I'm just now seeing this thread but there is definitely something to the Barbie theory. You see, I never had a Barbie as a child, never wanted one, never played with them.
Then, on my 28th birthday, one of my girlfriends, feeling sorry for me having had a Barbie-deprived childhood, gave me a Barbie doll.
Nine years later, BAM, cancer! Thankfully since I got the Barbie late in life I only got DCIS.
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I can't believe I came across this thread. My husband and I were just talking about how we used to pop tar bubbles when we were kids. ( I'm 52). My 4 teenagers looked at us like we had 10 heads. I really thought we were the only ones. Boy, those days were so simple. Give us a stick and a hot summer day and we were good to go!
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Patoo: Sorry if I breathed on you and you got BC second-hand because I played in the fog from the mosquito trucks! My friends and I couldn't wait until Monday nights when the truck came through the neighborhood. Best games of hide and seek I have ever played!
Yeah, the d*#% mosquito poison didn't help my BC. That and all the Charlie Chips I ate as a kid!
Wonderland
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Well ladies,
I had always liked S'mores, and I always let my marshmallows blaze and turn into blackened cinders. And that's what gave me a 2 inch tumor!
Catherine
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Burnt Toast - yum but I guess that could be what did it
(or the lashings of butter on the burnt toast)!!
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Catherine, S'mores were invented by Girl Scouts. Who wear GREEN, not PINK. Therefore, it was NOT the S'mores.
Well I sure hope not cause I don't want to have to stop eating them.
Leah
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My cancer was caused by eating pink Kool Aid right out of the package. This is a fact.
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Yup. Pink.
Leah
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Or was it that "camping toast" that we used to have? After cooking the bacon on the outside stove, we would fry bread in the bacon grease. Yummy.
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No, it was the 'burnt' part I ate because I didn't scrape all the burnt off the toast before I slathered it with, not butter, margarine!!
Or maybe it was the times I missed my eyelid and poked myself in the eye with the liner pencil. That black stuff went behind my eyeballs and down into my chest. That's what my BS cut out, black eyeliner smudge that clumped into a lump.
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Tube tops! Did we mention them? They squeezed our boobs so much the cells knocked together forming uneven edges and let the big 'C' in.
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Hmmm...sex, drugs, rock & roll and wine! Gave up the drugs, not giving up the other 3 though. I fully intend to go out having a good time. Can't be the Barbie's; I never owned one.
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The government did it! You know they'll do anything to keep us out of politics!
Wonderland, we had Charlie Chips too! I haven't thought of those in YEARS...
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Nah, navygirl - can't be the gov't. They would love to have all of us descend on DC to take everyone's mind off politics and on to breasts!
I'm back again to thinking it's housework - dust bunnies (edit to add - 'disturbed' dust bunnies) cause BC!
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hmmm. Good point patoo! That would give them a justified reason to focus on breasts.
Well, considering I have 3 dogs, 2 cats and 2 birds, it's quite possible housework could have caused mine! I have to clean every day. What was I thinking?
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What fun! this is my first post.
Don't know about you ladies but my DCIS came from those innocuous little lightening bugs I used to capture when I was 10 and keep in an empty mayonnaise jar. That glow was probably radioactive. Then the dormant BC cells were just waiting for 23 year-old-me to stand outside my car on a dirt road in Arizona watching the crop duster make passes over the cotton field, as the spray rained down on stupid city-girl me. The clincher was undoubtedly the residual feedback from shaving my legs for so many years. Mom tried to hold me off but, being Italian and waving an Ann Landers column in front of her, I began the lifelong exercise at age 13 of having shower water run up my nose while I bent over for my nearsighted eyes to see what I was doing to my legs! Little tiny hairs, shaved off, going through sinuses, irritating the ductwork! Voila! DCIS.
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Disturbed dust bunnies - is there another sort? Oh Patoo!!
Thank you all, i come here for my therapy! and Navygirl, with seven pets to walk, worship and teach to whistle, (oh and maybe you feed them too and change their dustbowls?) I'm impressed you have time for housework every day! i didn't realise you were meant to do it every day. I'm sure my mother never did. ..... Ah. Hmmm.
Hi CrSelby and welcome. yes maybe those caterpillars i used to kep in jamjars have something to do with it. They did used to smell something awful!
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You're supposed to do housework EVERY DAY??????????????
Leah
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I stole it from my sister. I was always so mad that she got EVERYTHING, and I got NOTHING. Well, I showed her!
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I'm convinced there is a white mist in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean just like in the movie "The
Incredible Shrinking Man" and when my Grandmother was immigrating from Spain in 1907 and
they sailed from Spain, around South American and then to Hawaii that the boat passed through
this white mist giving her the dreaded "Breast Cancer Gene". That would explain how I am
the 8th woman on my Mom's side to have breast cancer. It's the white mist !!
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this thread is amazing!
I think I got BC from putting hydrogen peroxide in my hair in my teens to give myself some gorgeous high lights in the summer- or maybe sun in if my mother was feeling bad for me
.Followed by drinking lots of Boones Farm wine in my early twenties. I can't blame the Barbie dolls, I had Miss Piggy Dolls- (hi yah!)
Or perhaps it was the under roos?
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You wore underoos - thought that was just for boys???? Oh, maybe that's why you got BC becuase you wore male underwear! But then, what about the rest of us because I didn't wear them so there must be multiple reasons you can get this BC thingy.
It could have been holding in the stomach, you know, when taking pictures or walking with your skinny friends. Squeezing those stomach muscles stopped the BC cells from making it down and through the intestines so they just made a home in the breasts.
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