Let's conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer

gibby

You know, I think I got bc because I had to be all of my brothers friends date!!!!!! None of them could get a date so Mom always said I would fill in. I just had a thought though, maybe it was those sky high platform shoes!!!!

Anonymous

Or, I bet my BC was caused by that stuff my mom used on my thumb to stop me from sucking (I sucked my thumb until I was 12!)

gibby

Ya for sure footsprintangle! Camping with Dad was really fun!!!!! Needless to say as an adult I will never camp again. I'm thinking that colouring my hair every colour in the rainbow probably didn't help my situation either.

ann-idiot

Again, I'm going with stress. However, busting open thermometers and playing with the little balls of mercury wiggling about in my mom's huge porcelain sink probably didn't do me any favors....but I'm still sticking with stress as the primary culprit. 

Anonymous

Yeah, JO, bazooka bubble gum.  I bet that pink stuff did it especially when you put 2 or 3 pieces into your mouth.  Or maybe chewing it wasn't the problem but when the bubble you blew burst and stuck over your top lip and part of your nose was what gave us bc.

Alpal

Do you think that it could have been swallowing it ???

REKoz

Saddle shoes?

barbe1958

pedal pusher pants?

Anonymous

What about Slurpees? I grew up drinking them daily, kind of strayed for a few years, and now that we live near a 7-11, maybe I'm in trouble (because I drink them constantly again!!!).

REKoz

Fluffernutter?

Anonymous

Fluffernutter - what's that?  Maybe something I was exposed to and didn't know?  Hmmmmmmm, sounds like a lawsuit there.  Any Esq's in the house?

REKoz

Remember that marshmellow stuff they used to sell in jars? I think it was called marshmellow fluff. Spread that on white bread (preferably Wonder), add some peanut butter and you had yourself a fluffernutter!!  Very healthy indeed!

idaho

THIS IS IT!!!!! I'VE GOT THE ANSWER!!!! Breast Cancer is caused from using my mom's feminine hygiene pads as pillows on the shoe box beds for barbies.  There, we have made a full circle!  Barbies it is!!!! (oh, (blushing), did anyone else do that, or just me?!!).  You know- wash rags for blankets, the big towels for carpet. pads for pillows!!???  etc. etc. etc...Tami  (red rover, red rover, thanx for comin over Barbe!!)

Anonymous

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, you got it - Wonder bread - the one without the holes.  I think since it didn't have holes it was the more expensive and so we usually had Taystee.   So maybe you gals who ate Wonder got "it" from that since taking out the holes also took out the nutrients that fought bc. 

Anonymous

Ewwwww, you let her sleep on those things.  Bad mommy, bad mommy, and posting that on today, Mother's Day, no less.  Idaho, shame on you - any child services folk on here today???

Anonymous

Idaho-that made me lol, I totally did that!!!!!!  BINGO!

flash

You folks have it all wrong: BC is caused by the ti-dye blankets and ponchos knitted for Barbie (Tami or whatever)!

Patoo- you didn't let your Barbies sleep????? That's it, Barbie must have BC from no melatonin, no wonder her tata's are so big. We should re-name Barbie to BCBarbie.

marlegal

First time I stumbled upon this site - I love it!!!!  All my copybooks in school had "Mary and Bobby ... Mr and Mrs Bobby Farrell ... Mary Farrell ... Mary Delaney Farrell ..." and so on with whichever guy it was!!  Hadn't though of that for years - thanks so much grg for that memory!!  Anyway, I think what caused my cancer was french kissing before I even knew what that meant.  All I knew was some guy put his tongue so far down my throat I choked and didn't want to do that again for about 5 years!  He probably had carcinogenic cells on the tip of his tongue, and they went down my throat right to the breast    

Anonymous

I would not have let them sleep on feminine hygiene pads.  It was probably scratchy so I think a sock would have been better and her hair would not get stuck on the threads.

Really though I just remember having dolls but not Barbie.  Was she around in the 50's?  Probably something else we could not afford (I'm the one who posted we could not afford kleenex so we stuffed our bras with toilet paper - talk about scratchy!).

marlegal - now that is funny!!!!

marlegal

patoo, i like your signoff!  as for barbie in the 50's ...i don't think so, i think she made her debut during the 60's.  as for what we could not afford, i was about 25 before i realized that goulash wasn't a delicacy, it was just a way to put tomatoes and macaroni and ground beef together and serve night after night after night after ....  oh well, you get the idea!!  the funny thing is though that i never, ever, ever once in my early life realized we were poor.  we were happy for the most part, and no one was hungry (except maybe mom?  oh crap, never thought about that!!)  anyway, this is a funny thread ... so to end with humor ... the other thing i think caused my cancer was not having any breasts to speak of until i was preggers ... and then i had enough for 15 women!!  i think the sudden jump confused my body

Makratz

Pop Rocks????

Anonymous

Pop Rocks, yeah that could be.  Or lemonade made out of Realemon juice?

Marlegal, I can relate.  I grew up in Harlem and we did not know we were poor.  Everyone was poor in the neighborhood so thought it was normal.  I actually wrote a paper in college about that.

BCBarbie came about in the 50's so it's possible  she may be post-menopausal; guess she will do arimidex? 

misty123

Has no one figured it out yet, there are only two ways I could have gotten breast cancer

1. Playing in the dirty water when they cleaned the fire hydrants every summer, that water had to give me BC

2. Sneaking shower curtains and dish detergent and making homemade slip and slides in the back yard, that dish detergent went right into our skin and waiting for breast to grow to punish us kids for taking things out of the house to play with.

Never could get my head to explode by eating pop rocks and drinking pepsi right behind it so I know pop rocks are harmless and does not cause cancer.

benisse

This is a hoot!!!

If we're focusing on things ingested as a possible cause, it would have to be hair mousse fumes for me.  I used to love me some mousse.

If it's clothes that are the culprit, as far as I'm concerned, we should look into Guess jeans, madras button downs, Mexican dresses, espadrilles and add-a-bead necklaces.

And let's not forget shoulder pads..  Even the removable shoulder pads left you with velcro abraising the hell out of your shoulder.

It's been suggested to me by more than one of my mother's generation that running could be a problem.  Afterall, how could a breast endure all that "up and down" without forming an insidious cancer?

Sphynx

Yes, it's true - AARP announced that Barbie turned 50 this year.  She made her fashion debut in March of 1959.

This is Barbie today:

Marple

How have I missed this thread???  Before I spray any more of my morning tea on the computer screen I'll add my two cents worth.

I didn't have Barbe dolls.........always wanted one but I do remember the city fogging for mosquitoes and since we knew the fogger guy he always gave our house an extra shot.  How lucky for us.  I think the hot mustard plasters my mom put on my CHEST when I got a cold must also cause b.c.

Is anyone going to compile all this information and submit it to the medical community?

Anonymous

What, and let them steal all of our research?  All the money they've spent to date without a cure and we should let them in on the real causes?  No, I say let them continue to solicit funds and find their own answers!!!!! 

REKoz

Sphinx-  PERFECT timing for that pix!   I got several emails of Barbie turning 50, this one among them. KUDOS!

An "aha" moment I had which surely had something to do with getting bc. CHAD EVERETT and to a lesser extent James Brolin and even Marcus Welby. Since I just LOVED all those Doc's and their bedside manner (just like the Doc's of today!), I used go to sleep at night pretending I was in the hospital being attended by one of them. sigh...but CHAD- oh my hunky Dr. Gannon- he treated me the most!  Having never been sick until this, I must have wished myself into it!

Bigapple09

I always get annoyed when someone tells me it must be the artifical sweetner I use, then I tell them, I only became concerned with my weight after I had cancer. Then they sit there with their mouths open.



Which tempts me to throw packets of splenda into their mouths.

Anonymous

Can you see them sputtering to get the splenda out before they 'catch' what you have.  LOL

But, maybe they are right and your body knew that one day you were going to use splenda and so decided to go ahead and give you bc in anticipation?