To the stat that 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer, that’s a scare statistic! 7 of 8 won’t get breast cancer! And, the stats are relative to age! I wish I could post pic from book written by oncologist about real breast cancer risks. My breast surgeon thinks I should have been on hrt it for a long time, but my endocrinologist scared me away,
Also, with use of bone drugs, you have to look at absolute risk reduction as opposed to the sales pitch, of relative risk reduction if you really want to compare benefits vs. side effects. I know it’s depressing to read that absolute risk reduction isn’t very good, but taking meds, with for some people, possibly bad side effects, risking low BP and dizziness causing falls, no exercise tolerance, and possible cardiac effects down the road just doesn’t make sense to me for most people. Uninformed doctors and big pharma are selling false hope imho. And, don’t get me wrong, I think big pharma does some things well. Unfortunately, in life sometimes we learn that there isn’t always a great fix to things. Hard to deal with and we have to do the best we can. It’s unfortunate that we have to do so much research ourselves, but thankful for this forum of people who do it!