Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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Lumps of brown sugar. Sticks of butter (eaten like a popsicle...ugh). Burnt toast with salt. I'm sure any one of those is carcinogenic.
Oh jeez...almost forgot the Squirrel Nut Zippers!!
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Sugar sandwiches and Potato Chip sandwiches, made on white bread with butter - hey don't knock it till you try it.....
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It was all of the salt I used to lick from my hand in the summertime. It tasted soooo good.
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notself - I love your quote!
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Thanks. Lao Tzu was one of the worlds greatest thinkers.
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patoo worse than pg-14 stuff---i was watching reruns of a dreadful old tv series from the 60s called "Rat Patrol" because I thought the actors on it were cute
. . . I think I was an innocent 7th grader or so, not sure, its a blur probably because I was not geting enough sleep due to staying awake until 2 in the morning to watch bad tv......WAIT, thats another one---all-nighters, thats what caused my breast cancer, all nighters in school.
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all of us with no air conditioning!!!! Looks like a trend... the sweat that collected in between my boobs HAD to have been the culprit!!!
AND RAVE perms LOL i had forgotten about those!!!
Paydays and real coke- check
Maybe it was all those episodes of Dark Shadows?????
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Oh-No! I didn't air conditioning as a kid either.
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Could it be that I was a tomboy and rode my little petal car down our bumpy driveway? Maybe that bounced the cells in the boobs to form cancer.
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Yeah, we did all kinds of things to call bounce - jumping rope. No wait, I didn't have any boobs then.
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Talk about bouncing...what about those pogo sticks?
No air conditioning here either as a kid.
I use to chew on those wax lips, maybe that's it.
My best bet is...Halloween...homemade treats, I know it was only once a year, but who knows what those evil neighbor ladies put in those colored popcorn balls.
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Okay girls. I've had a good laugh here today. And Lord knows I needed one! Anybody willing to start a forum topic on some REAL life culprits? I'll start with the breast cancer risk calculators (it's mentioned on every single one of them I have found) and what my doctor told me on the very day I was diagnosed....stop taking your birth control pills. They cause breast cancer. I told her, you're about 15 years too late!
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Nah KorynH - haven't you been listening to your oncs - those 'real' things are not the cause otherwise 99% of women would have gotten BC. It has to be housework because lots of women have housekeepers,nanny's, moms, daughters, and so were able to sit around and chew on wax lips instead of doing housework. Oh no, they would still have gotten it from the wax lips. Disregard this - back to the drawing board.
Scooter - I loved pogo sticks. We couldn't afford one but my friend had one and would occasionally let me bounce on it. I know that she died years ago, not from BC, but she was young so maybe it just hadn't been dx yet.
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why is it that technology and innovations have made us "safer" (seatbelts, helmets, airbags, ready made foods, non-smoking laws, internet)...but along with safer and faster, we've got much higher incedences of cancer?
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One word...
multi-tasking
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I didn't do it often but as a child.......cleaned the bathroom with Comet!!!!!! To this day I hate the stuff.
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We used Ajax. Is that still around? (shows how much I clean!)
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I think it was toasting marshmallows as a kid. I'd get all impatient and do the flambe method - obviously it was the carbonization! Exhibit B (I'm Exhibit A, of course!) - is my older sister, who took took 5 times as long to patiently and methodically turn her marshmallow a lovely beige all over. She doesn't have BC. Voila! It was the charred marshmallows.
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So blame your dx on your sister - she is older and so should have taught you patience and you would have had a lovely beige marshmallow as well and no BC!
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Hmmm....must have been either always carrying and kissing my cat or perhaps pancake syrup poured all over cottage cheese as a child that caused it.
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Crap!! I used Ajax today. I'm doomed!
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Nah, Makraz, you were already hit so you are now immune from Ajax induced BC! However, you used it to do housework and, I've said it several times before, housework causes BC.
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It definitely is the birth control pill. As a matter of fact, I was also told to quit the very day I was diagnosed...
??? doh! so much for prevention.
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Whenever I need a laugh, I know this thread will be there for me. Thanks you guys.
I can't claim to have read all 46 pages, but I probably have read most of them at one time or another. However, it amazes me that you have all missed this obvious probable cause. It's playing tether ball. You wack that ball over and over, slamming out those aggressive feelings, and the adrenalin pumps. Now, I haven't worked out how slamming that ball with my right hand gave me cancer on the left side..... well I'm still working on this theory.
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Nope. No tether ball here. Maybe it was kick ball. I loved kick ball.
OR...how about this! In 7th grade I had a wonderful "hands on" science teacher. Still love science to this day because of her. But, you know what she did? She let us play with mercury. It was SOO cool! The way it would ball up and roll around was amazing.
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We used to break thermometers and play with the mercury. I am certain that is why I am so clear headed today.
I think tether ball is also a contributing factor along with field hockey. Nothing like pubescent girls running around in knee pads with sticks in their hands to bring on hormonal storms.
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Well, it can't be housework. I avoided it! The uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough was my weakness. Have we eliminated that? Then I think I lived a while on peanut butter and jelly. Could it be grape jelly?
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No, had PB&J today - Uh oh! Well, it was strawberry jelly so maybe it was the grape? You avoiced housework but I bet you got caught once in a while (like me) and, here we are! I mean, other than 99% of us here being female, we probably all have hw in common. Oh, wait, that abbrev could be 'homework' - our teachers did us in.
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It must of been all that kool-aid I drank as a kid....ya that's it, I'll blame it on the kool-aid! I too, would break open the thermometers and play with the mercury...cool stuff! Today, I no longer drink kool-aid, play with mercury, and because this must have something to do with it; I try to avoid all things domestic...lol!
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I just thought of something else...fizzies! Remember those? Instead of putting the fizzies in water, it was fun to break of pieces and put them directly in your mouth to get the "fizzy sensation" I miss fizzies!!!
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How 'bout Pop Rocks! Super dangerous if you took a drink of Coke with them in your mouth. There was a rumor that it would blow your guts out! haha.
Maybe that did it. And housework, of course. Avoid it at all cost!
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