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October 4, 2009
Published on Oct 04, 2009
Believe it or not.
Some of the things people have said or implied may have caused my breast cancer:
1. Hormone Replacement Therapy
2. Coffee
3. Pilates
4. Diet
5. Environment
Rebuttal:
1. I can understand this given the Women’s Health Initiative Research Study that showed increased risk of breast ca after 5+ years on HRT. But my surgeon, Kari Rosenkranz, rock star to me, assured me that my tenure on hormone replacement did NOT cause my cancer. She said it was probably brewing in my breast for years and years, well before HRT days. Oh, and I was ony on HRT for 3 years.
2. Ha, ha, ha.
3. Wha? You talkin’ to me?????
4. No research to support this, yet. I suspect it makes a difference, and I’ll tweak my diet accordingly.
5. Yup. But we don’t know exactly WHAT in the environment could’ve been the culprit.
So I say this to you with love and respect.
Get your mammograms and stop thinking it can’t happen to you. It can and it will. One in three of us will have some kind of cancer in our lifetimes. Life is risky business.