Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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Personally, I think it was Pez for me.
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You folks are soooooooo funny.
Barbara - where in FL is Treasure Island? Are you impacted by the oil spill?
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I was just remembering that in elementary school we had Assembly once a week. Everyone had to wear a white blouse/shirt that day.
In order to keep the shirts white, our mothers probably used bleach.
Seeped into our future boobs and BAM. BC.
Leah
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Well, if it's bleach, I'm doomed. I swill the stuff all over the place cleaning up after my cats.
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No matter how careful I try to be I undoubtedly splash the bleach on whatever I'm wearing and so probably that's what I did. Oh, maybe not because then I would have been doing the laundry topless?
Here's a thread that we should share in a combined book: http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/67/topic/755825?page=1
Would cover how we contracted BC and what we are going through.
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I think we all got breast cancer from one or more of the following things: Birth Control Pills, Red Meat, Alcohol, Licorice, Diet Soda, White Bread, White Pasta, Artifical Sweetners, Hormone injected chicken, pork and beef, fish from the oceans, rivers and ponds, maraschino cherries, the sun, city water, country well water, finger nail polish, bug spray, spray deodorant, plastic containers, silver fillings in our teeth, hair dye, lotions and the list goes on and on and on. Now tell me...have any of you avoided all of the things I mentioned? I think not:)0
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I think it may be caused by jumping rope when we were little. Too much jumping woke up our cancer cells.
Or maybe when we had to undress in front of others for gym class. All that anxiety of being almost naked and trying to make ourselves invisible morphed our prepubescent cells.
Or ,you know, it could have been those exercises we did..."We must, we must, we must increase our bust".
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Frozen Chicken Pot Pie.
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OMG...Sunny Coconut! I did all of those things that you mention on a daily basis. Now I know the rest of the story as Paul Harvey used to say:)
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Very, very interesting topic....because it is worldwide, however, I don't know about the dolls etc... but I always suspected it was caused by deodorant or lipstick/gloss. They are the only things that (hopefully on deodorant!) we all have used. The other thing I thought about was how much pool water I swallowed as a kid. From like 2 years old to 10 I spent roughly every spare minute in the 5 months we could use the pool in the Northeast swimming but I do know I drank a lot of HTH!!!!!!! I also thought it might be something in lotion that we are all putting on our bodies. Our nipples are more porous than our skin?
I think all 70,000 of us need to post here because there must be a common denominator. Cancer overall, however, is ubiquitous therefore it must be systemic.
Liz
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I can't agree about the deodorant part---breast cancer is all over the world but deodorant isn't.
The one thing that is all over the world, done by women everywhere, all over the world from the arctic to the tropics, from the east to the west, is housework. Clearly THAT is the common denominator between all of us and the thing to be avoided at all costs. And mind you, it would appear that it is EXTREMELY TOXIC --even the slightest exposure dramatically increases the risk for breast cancer. I am a perfect example: I rarely perform any acts of housework and yet here I am.
We must warn the others...my daughter will be so thrilled!
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Right on! It is definetly HOUSEWORK
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I said that early on - many, many pages ago - HOUSEWORK is the culprit. I'm allergic to it and still had to do it. My parents are to blame for my BC because they made me do chores. I am the youngest girl and so my older sisters tortured me to make me do theirs as well. That's why they have been spared. Of course my younger, brat, brother, got away scot free. HOUSEWORK - there oughta be a law!!!!
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grandpa married grandma-----the gene came from her side. solid research from granpa's side established only cardiovascular history. grandma's side is loaded with CA--didn't show up until late in my dads generation and with avengegance in my generation-40-65
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Patoo, I have been in agreement with you for a long time about the housework problem. I'm glad to see others have joined in.
Now we have to find a solution. Anyone?
Leah
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Well, I'm telling everyone I can that it causes BC so maybe if we get enough of our sisters to stop doing it then there will be no recurrence and those who don't have it will see that it was the real cause, stop doing hw and, bam, no new cases of BC - it will be wiped out!
Of course there's always those folk who insist on bucking the system and will clean anyway so we will need to create a new group on our police force who will only go out and find/stop people who are cleaning. The hefty fines can go to pay for research into other cancers.
Yeah, sounds like a plan. I like it. Yeah, let's run with this one. Hey, it's a new career path - anyone out there need a job?
Yeah, I'm hallucinating and really should go upstairs and get ready for bed.
Night all.
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oh no not frozen pot pies
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Thanks for the smiles ladies
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I Blame it On the Bosa Nova.
Leah
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Leah, can you still do it?
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After much thought I have figured it out. Shopping caused my BC. Not the dinner kind of shopping but the heated frenzied flipping through the sale racks at Macy's, and Ross. See for years I flipped with my right hand while staving off any person coming into my 3 feet of rack. All those cute tops, pants and dresses that were searched out and purchased at incredible prices have turned out to have very high hidden costs.
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OMG, I used to do the same thing. . . .surely this has contributed to my bc as much as that dratted housework. . . .
I will note that I am working hard on avoiding a recoccurance by not doing ANY housework at all.
This can be verified by speaking to my husband!
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Could it be from eating uncooked Christmas cake mixture - it came to me suddenly when I was making Christmas cakes that, being the baby of the family, I always got to scrape out the bowl when my mother made the Christmas cakes when I was young - could that be the missing link???
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Patoo, I think you've inadvertently hit upon the answer - it's not so much housework but being bullied by your older sisters into doing it. It's the middle child syndrome!!!
And, my earlier suggestion about sleeping side in relation to our DH may not sound so silly after all - but according to the following link it's not *his* fault but our inner spring mattresses!!!
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Middle child syndrome? Then I should have been immune-I'm the oldest--and the one who helped make my younger siblings' lives as miserable as possible. That's a requirement of being the eldest child, it's in the manual, you can look it up!
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Well, NM, you know what they say about risk factors - they raise the risk but you can get it without that particular factor.
As for me - yes, I'm the middle child. Neither on of my sisters has bc. And, yes, of course they both made my life miserable when we were kids. It was their responsibility. They weren't shirkers. And, as NM said, it's in the manual. The oldest bosses the others around and makes thir lives miserable. The youngest looks adorable to the adults and makes her siblings lives miserable. And the middle child? I got bc.
Leah
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heck - I am the oldest and the only one who got bc. I thought my job was to look after the younger ones - must have been given the wrong manual.
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Oh my goodness! I have only read the first page and the last page of this thread but BOY did I need it this morning. LOL!
Has anybody mentioned a correlation to eating Play-Doh and BC? I swear I mostly licked it; however, you know you weren't supposed to eat it. Maybe just licking it was enough.
Why does that sound naughty all of a sudden? ;-)
I'm going to read some of the other pages as soon as I make myself get up and make some toast for breakfast. Stomach is upset again. Not to worry, I'll be laughing again soon. Thanks guys!
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Leah_S : Do you think NativeMainer and lassie11 got BC from being in middle management jobs - being bossed around at work rather than at home as a middle child?0
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Well, I'm not middle child. I'm 3rd of 4 but the youngest doughter. Older sisters don't have BC but I think they ate the cake mixture and by the time the bowl got down to me it was wiped clean. So eating the mixture probably made them immune. My brother, youngest, doesn't have BC either but of course he was mom's favorite so she probably gave him some 'special' protection!
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