An article about chemicals/professions and increase in BC risk

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april485
april485 Member Posts: 3,257
edited June 2014 in High Risk for Breast Cancer

and thought I would share since a lot of the professions may be represented here at BCO. When I was in high school, I wanted to work with my then boyfriend so I had a job in a factory that chrome plated things and I was breathing in chemicals and touching them all day long for two summers in a row...hmmmmmmm, makes me wonder a bit anyway.

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/solvents-may-raise-breast-cancer-risk-some-study-finds-n118006

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited May 2014

    I believe there are many 'things' that contribute to developing cancer.  There is no know cancer on either side of my family for at least 4 generation - until IBC in me.  I have been around a lot of substances in my life that I think may/did comtribute.  In the jobs, was a Master Cosmetologist for 10 yrs, did screen printing for several years before the 'nicer' inks were available amd did upholstery for several yrs also.  But also, I have been around, at least to some degree, air plane/jet exhaust.  I was born Army and then Daddy switched to the USAF when it was formed so I lived on or near  Air Bases til he retired.  Then I was Army and married an Airdale (Navy guy who was a Parachute Rigger so around planes - not boats), so spent 20 yrs on or near Naval Air Stations) and the last 11yrs we have lived under the flight path of an AFB.  So I've had a lot of exposure to jet exhaust.  Could any of these things (singly or jointly) be responsible - can never know for sure either way but I think it's highly likely at least to some degree.

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    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited May 2014

    I believe there are many 'things' that contribute to developing cancer.  There is no know cancer on either side of my family for at least 4 generation - until IBC in me.  I have been around a lot of substances in my life that I think may/did comtribute.  In the jobs, was a Master Cosmetologist for 10 yrs, did screen printing for several years before the 'nicer' inks were available amd did upholstery for several yrs also.  But also, I have been around, at least to some degree, air plane/jet exhaust.  I was born Army and then Daddy switched to the USAF when it was formed so I lived on or near  Air Bases til he retired.  Then I was Army and married an Airdale (Navy guy who was a Parachute Rigger so around planes - not boats), so spent 20 yrs on or near Naval Air Stations) and the last 11yrs we have lived under the flight path of an AFB.  So I've had a lot of exposure to jet exhaust.  Could any of these things (singly or jointly) be responsible - can never know for sure either way but I think it's highly likely at least to some degree.

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  • proudtospin
    proudtospin Member Posts: 5,972
    edited May 2014

    I was an inside sales person for an offset printing company....can you say nasty cancer causing chemicals?

    big time, my cancer arrived in 08, my asthma did not appear until after I had worked in the shop for some years, my time in the company was about 15 years, I used to cough and gang when I would be near the printing presses, asthma sure not fun so yeah, personal injury lawyer is working on a workmans comp case based on the cancer and other junk

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