well this insulting - BC a "fat" cancer?

After the "nurses' study" claimed that french fries caused bc, I quit reading those latest, greatest CAUSES articles.  If someone actually finds the root cause, AND the cure, I'll just gloss over them because by the next news cycle they will find the study was wrong and it's something else.

Exactly - people are constantly confusing association with cause. 

Another pre-dx slim person here - who only gained weight because of treatment and is now in the process of taking back off. 

Same here, I was slim before dx and put on over 40 lbs with the treatment. One can't have Graves disease, be hyperthyroid and be fat!!! At one point when my thyroid was really acting up I was weighing 100 lbs!

Believe me, it is real hard  to get rid of it. I'm 5'4", used to weigh 120-130 (depending if winter or summer, I was slimmer in summer) on a very small frame (very small boned) with a waist of 25". Now I feel like a whale, I weigh 170-175 lbs and my waist is 38"!!!

"Fat" cancer my behind (yes, the big one that I have now)!

The only thing related to the "fat" is the fact that once in menopause, when the ovaries do not produce estrogen, and the adrenal gland starts producing it, it's stored in the body fat. So the more body fat, the higher the risk for the ones who had ER/PR+ BC - or, for the ones who never had it, to have an ER/PR + BC.

Minxie, total BS, I agree.   My first onc I met with told me this and I dropped her.  I thought she was a quack.  Obviously, many thin women who eat right get BC.   I was very thin at my diagnosis.

I just haven't witnessed this being a fat disease at all. Every patient I know is slim!

hello! i am 29, 5'6" and 135lbs, and I too, got bc, it is outrageous that it is being looked at as a "fat cancer", i have family history, but i tested negative with the BRCA test. my honest to goodness gut feeling is being on birth control (namely yasmin) for so long accelerated estrogen receptors, but hey, no doctor wants to admit that, they all say "nay". no way that could happen. It's GOTTA be my occasional drinks, my once in a while fast food habit, stress, ANYTHING but birth control pills, ha! whatever....

Tried posting this last night but lost it. I saw a story about Catherine Booth who together with her husband William started the Salvation Army. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 59 and died - was promoted to glory - within three years. She had eight children, starting when she was 26, and from the pictures i have seen, she doesn't seem to have been particulary overweight for a woman her age, generation and parity; and she was strongly against alcohol from an early age, probably due to the ambivalent influence of her father. I actually noticed her because i saw two separate pictures where she is shown with one glove (right hand in both cases) and i couldn't think but that maybe she was dealing with lymphoedema - these were posed, as were all photos from that era, not snapshots.

Pics are here http://www.salvos.com/about.htm  and here http://www.heilsarmee.de/nhq/public/index.php?id=359

Maybe we should start a Heroines' gallery along with TV's movie!

Thank you Debo, sadly i'm not that flexible anymore.

I am skinny, premenopausal, got BC. There are many very overweight people, like my mother and my aunt, who are in their 70's, no BC. There is no rhyme or reason!!!

I personally have often wondered about the connection between breast cancer and birth control pills! (I was on them a long time because I never had kids.)

But like others above have said, there is no rhyme nor reason to who gets BC & who doesn't ... if it were that clear-cut, this mystery would be solved by now! ;-)