Breast Cancer Outcome inherited

Mimi,
I know its really hard, but try to focus on the fact that you are in the "new age" of treatment options that your mom didnt have 30 yrs ago....

I struggle with the "what to read/what not to read" issue as well...I am the first in my family to ever have breast cancer...there are many other types of cancers in my family but I for some reason got to be the one with BC...I try to only read things that I think might pertain to me and the rest I leave alone, but it is really hard...

I hope you are able to find your "positive" again!!!!!!

There is a thread here that is called the "positive girls club" Ive been positive pretty much since joining this journey of BC and have participated in that thread from the beginning....we would welcome you there if you would like to post there....we all try to go there and post our positives for the week....sometimes one or two of us cant find a positive so the rest of us pick her up, dust her off and try to help her get re-centered...there are weeks that we all have a "huge" amount of positives to post too .....sometimes it helps to have a little push to find a positive when its been a rough week....

Hugs
Jule

I didn't read that study but I wonder how that could really be. Different indviduals, different treatment, different tumor characteristics. Some genetics the same, different environments.

You do not have your mother's cancer. You have your own.

Take care,
--Hattie

I don't believe it. Most of these studies coming out are inconclusive and irrelevant because of the way the cancer is treated today.

Unless there are several studies coming out that are scientifically designed correctly, I'd say, read it with interest but remember that much of this is too hard to prove.

And what a waste of money!
Shirley

Yeah, I feel like you Mimi. I know enough to know that I don't know enough. I've done graduate level statistics, worked in medical quality assurance, and have several co-authored papers in medical journals. But I don't know enough to judge the worth of many of the papers/articles I read, especially those on the net or stuff in the newspapers. So mostly I don't read them anymore.

This I am sure of. You cannot inherit an outcome. You cannot inherit anything from a sister. What you can inherit and share with a sister/cousin, etc. is a genetic tendency to a particular kind of cancer. The outcome of that cancer (should it occur) depends on a whole lot of factors.

For breast cancer a 30 year difference in treatment possibilities is huge. You are not your mother. 2007 is not 1977.

By the way I liked that veggie/fruit study - one less thing to feel guilty about. Now if they would just publish something that found that chocolate and scotch were cancer suppressants I would be a happy woman.

Another garbage study. Seems to me there are way too many variables involved for them to draw any valid conclusions.