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Mamita49
Mamita49 Member Posts: 538
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

I have the strange feeling somehow that inflammation and breast cancer go well together. Last year I was reading somewhere that most cancers are a result of some kind of inflammation in the body.

I cant remember where I read it. Anyhow, if you have any research done, or information about this, I would be very happy if anyone could let me know. BTW, I had rheumatic fever as a child, and arthritis one year before breast cancer......

Any input on this........

Thanks

Carol 

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  • SpunkyGirl
    SpunkyGirl Member Posts: 1,568
    edited April 2010

    I agree, Mamita.  I saw an article on this in a journal down at Hopkins, and it gave me the chills.  I had mastitis in the affected breast in 2002 and had a lump in the same area that the cancer was found in 2006.  I don't believe in coincidences!.....Thanks for posting this.  I'd like to see what others have to say.

    I also read a strange (widely circulated article) that many women with BC have a history of ear infections.  I had a very nasty one in the ear on the affected side not six months before my diagnosis.  I'll have to find the article....

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  • CindyJ123
    CindyJ123 Member Posts: 5
    edited April 2010
    Wow,I had a ear infection 8 months before I was diagnosed.That's strangeSurprised
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  • krcll
    krcll Member Posts: 343
    edited April 2010

    Hmmm..... I had several ear infections on the affected side in the 2 years before I was diagnosed.

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  • Let-It-Be
    Let-It-Be Member Posts: 325
    edited April 2010

    Mastitis for me as well on the bc side.

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited April 2010

    OMG - I too had Mastitis exactly where the cancer was. And I had constant, chronic ear infections as a child.

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited April 2010

    Never have had an ear infection in my life, nor mastitis - but the inflammation theory is something.....I take aspirin daily

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  • jenn3
    jenn3 Member Posts: 3,316
    edited April 2010

    I suffer with Rheumatoid Arthritis, which is an auto immune disease - causing a lot of inflammation. 

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  • Pure
    Pure Member Posts: 1,796
    edited April 2010

    I have 2 friends one who had Rheurmatoid Arthritis prior to developing bc one who developed RA 2 years after her diagnosis (she could have had prior and not known)

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited April 2010

    I had ear infections as a kid...but started having sinus infections a few years before Dx.....but this worries me as my DD #1 who is turning 24 had chronic, chronic ear infections as a kid....3 sets of tubes by age 5.....continued to get ear infections in elementary school and again as a young adult....also lots of sinus problems....I sure hate to think that this puts her at increased risk for BC....damn!!!  I hadn't really worried much about it before this....sure would like to know more.

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  • hendetales
    hendetales Member Posts: 2
    edited April 2010

    Hi, All!  I'm a newbee.  I probably have more information on inflammation than u would ever want. RA is an inflammatory disease.  And ear infections cause inflammation.  That's why u get warmth were the RA pain is and a temperature with  the ear.  I have Systemic Lupus, a collagen vascular and auto immune disease, which causes inflammation throughout different parts of my body. People with lupus and Scleroderma, which I also have, have a higher risk of developing bc. So I am pretty sure there is a connection with inflammation and bc.  Maybe more cancers than just bc. I hope this sheds a little light.

    Hende Wink

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  • MNLinda
    MNLinda Member Posts: 204
    edited April 2010

    I have an autoimmune disorder also.  I'd like to point out, however, that those of us with these kinds of inflammatory disorders are more likely than the general population to have been treated with powerful antiiflammatory medications that have been linked to cancer, and may also have been more likely to have procedures such as X-rays and CT scans that use radiation, also linked to cancer. 

    I would also caution against looking at recent events as possible causes of breast cancer.  If you think about it, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasai who were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation had a much increased risk of breast cancer, but most cancers appeared five to ten years later.  To associate a cancer with an ear infection you had eight months or even two years ago is really, really a stretch.  The cancer probably existed microscopically years before that, unless it's an abnormally agressive form of cancer.

    Ear infections are pretty common.  So are sore throats, also an inflammatory condition.  How many of us have had a sore throat?  Show of hands? Wink

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