informal poll - how tall are you?

I'm 5' 6". Had 2 sons (1 at 31 and other at 32). Did not breast feed them. Have never been obese. Always very active. 'Good'/well balanced diet. No family HX of any type of cancer for at least 4 generations. Was 63 when DXd.

BUT - I'm IBC which is only between 1% - 5% of all types of BC DXs. I have never heard that height had anything to do with developing any type of BC.

Interesting for sure. I have not heard this either, but I am 5'9". I didn't have my kids though until 31 and 33 - wasn't able to breastfeed.

Nancy

Thanks musiclover, I have at times felt that was it....I mean honestly breast cancer came out of left field for me! It didn't that my own father said he thought it was my weight. *sigh*

well. I am 6'1. Tall.

Also DES baby born in 1952. (Mother given estrogen to keep fetus from miscarriage ). But, at least I was born. 👍🙏😘

Hi, I WAS 5'5.5 inches before chemo. Last time i was measured, i had shrunk to 5'4'!! Also, before chemo, I was always 118 lbs, my whole adult life. Now, I cannot seem to get below 145. no kids.

I'm 5'10", no kids, not over weight but not under either. Eat no processed foods, am quite active. But I do like a glass of red wine before dinner. GG

I'm 5' 7.5". I breast fed both my kids a long time until they got teeth. I attribute my breast cancer in part to nursing them--with my second child I developed a wicked case of mastitis exactly where my breast cancer began many years later. Inflammation does cause breast cancer. I have no family history of bc and am brac I and brca II negative. Weesa

4'11, 100lbs, no family history, 2 children breast fed both for 1yr, 2yrs, healthy eater.

5'6" & 115lbs - mine was both sides.

5 ft, 100 lbs. have one child, at age 32, did not breast feed. Not a healthy eater, smoked some but exercised daily, cardio and weights. No family history. Age 48 at dx

I am 5'6" average weight .I had my son at 33 did not breast feed. for many years drank green tea and ate tons of blueberries its apparently a myth that they prevent cancer.

I'm 5'2" and have weighed around 110 my entire adult life - now age 59, diagnosed at 50, no kids. No known family history although we're not sure about my paternal grandmother who died institutionalized in the 1940's...

Julie

I was 5' 7" but now at 75 years of age I am 5' 6.5 ". Breast fed first baby for only about 2 months and never breast feed the following two sons. No family history, average weight my whole life, very active (until I took tamoxifen), have always eaten lots of veggies but not organic, until I was diagnosed. Would it even have mattered??? But I was on the estroderm patch when I was about 57 and I was given provera to take with the patch......so I guess I feel the provera may have had something to do with my bad luck. Yes, it clearly is a crap shoot.

wow--that is a provocative thought! Thinking about it, though, there was a long time span between the mastitis and my bc diagnosis--about 30 years. A few thermographs along the way always showed the mastitis spot as being abnormally warm. At any rate, it is important for women to note that if they breastfeed and have mastitis, they might have chronic inflammation which can lead to bc. (I have learned this connection from several reliable sources.)

Don't mean to highjack this thread of Tectonic's into a breastfeeding history--it does seem from a quick perusal that we are a taller-than-average group with a few outliers. Would be interesting to do a poll, though, to see how many of us had lengthy breastfeeding histories and got bc anyway.

Jillian--your story and mine are alike! I had my first child at 28, breastfed him for about 7 months, got pregnant when he was nine months old, and his young brother was born when my first child was 17.5 months old. I breastfed him as well until he got teeth and started to chew on me. I would think "lengthy" would mean 6 months or so--that is currently what most pediatricians recommend as a breast feeding length of time long enough to give the child a good start in life. I think what happened with my second child was he was not as prolific a feeder as my first one, or I produced more milk the second time around. I did not pump, and developed a red, swollen breast and a fever when I became engorged in my right breast which is the one with bc.