Where are you located?
I've read that triple-negative is about 15% of breast cancers that are diagnosed, but it seems like there's a lot of people on this thread.
Just curious if environment has to do anything with being diagnosed.
Anyone else from Ontario, Canada?
I tried to ask the oncologist and I am curious to see how much experience she does have with treating TN.
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Seattle, WA area
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If 15% of new cancer cases per year are triple negative, wouldn't that be at least 30,000 new cases of triple negative per year in the U.S. alone? Way more than on this thread! I am from NJ but have lived in the SOuth and Midwest, so I don't think where I live/lived is a factor.
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I grew up in Oakville Ont. but I haven't lived there for 25 years. My next door neighbor here in NB is a TN and was diagnosed 4 months before me. We think its our water. I guess we are all hoping for an answer as to why this is happening. I'm begining to think there isn't one.
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I'm in Toronto. There's a pretty big range of locations represented here, so I doubt local environmental factors have much to do wtih it.
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I'm from rural NE Pennsylvania. I have lived here for 25 years.
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I'm in Australia all my life ... also T N
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West Central Missouri. Grew up in Southern Illinois and high school in South Florida. Damn cancer certainly isn't picky!
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Drexel Hill, Pa.....................Grew up in Philadelphia, Pa................moved to Yeadon, Pa. then to Springfield, Pa...........then to Drexel HIll, Pa.............
2nd home in Cape May Beach, NJ
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Tennessee
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Atlanta - grew up in Florida.
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Grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lived in Michigan for five years (1999-2004) and have been in the Northeast (MA and NH) for the past 7 years.
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Karebear, Yes, also from Ontario, Canada. I'm from Mississauga. Where are you located?
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I am from Kansas, south of Wichita!
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Sugar77 -> I'm from Markham, Ontario.
Wow... reading all the responses; feels like there are some TNBCs from all over the world.
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Wow... reading all the responses; feels like there are some TNBCs from all over the world.
That would be my guess.
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New Orleans, La
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Hey Suze- I graduated from Miramar High School just south of Lauderdale- way back in 1983!
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Tif - I graduated from Plantation High in 1987! I'm always amazed it is such a small world.
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Suze - where in Michigan did you live? I grew up in Sarnia right across the river from Port Huron.
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Sugar - we lived in East Lansing for several years, then bought a house in Howell. Still own that darn thing! I don't think we went up that way, although we did visit Toronto several times. I'm still sorry we didn't see more of the state
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Seattle area. Most of my life. I was born in Wichita Kansas and moved many times until we settled in Seattle when I was about 10.
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San Francisco Bay Area my whole life. Grew up in Mountain View, then school in San Francisco, Davis, now a few miles south of San Jose.
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I grew up in Victoria, BC and now live in Florida (Tampa)
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Southern California.
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Los Angeles!
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East Coast my whole life born in SC now reside in VA....travelled other places though.
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Southern Maryland
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Illinois....45 minutes East of St. Louis, MO.
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Central New Jersey...They call our state cancer alley.
I think it is food, enviornment, hereditary. etc. that makes it so darn hard to find a cure. ALthough I am getting pretty tired of hearing how close they are
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ATeamNana- I grew up in O'Fallon, IL. then moved to South Florida in 1979. Where are you?
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