Age-related differences; breast cancer treatment

Thank you for sharing this very informative article! Fascinating but frankly, scary.

Still a mystery as to why so many young women are being diagnosed with breast cancer.

I would like to investigate further why obesity in young women can “protect “ them from breast cancer while it may be a contributing factor in older women? Interesting.

Overall, an excellent article. ♥️

That obesity-protection would be interesting. Just pure speculation here but obesity is correlated with higher levels of estrogen production, so maybe there's a concurrent increase in other hormones that provide some kind of protective balance overall? Science is still learning a lot about how the master hormone systems work together.

I had read this article in The NY Times and I found it very scary and unsettling. My daughters are on board with mammograms but now I am worried about my granddaughter who is 14. She is a slender athletic ( cross country runner) child. Since it’s October and Breast Cancer Awareness is out there, I’ve encouraged my daughter to review breast self exam and to hang a waterproof tag with visual instructions on the shower head. VERY UNSETTLING TREND unfolding.

I'm the demographic in the article - was 38, extremely aggressive TNBC (though White), I don't have the genes, I wasn't obese but not slender (160 lbs at 5'7").

One thing I go back to is the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences and cancer: the more you have the higher the likelihood of an early and aggressive cancer. I had a very traumatic childhood and experienced multiple ACEs. It makes me think that even though I don't smoke, drink, or eat too much, the trauma of that may have something to do with it.

Firstly, kudos to you for coming through those events and influences as I'm sure it took strength and faith and some serious hard work to claim your own self and move forward.

I'm sure that stressors impact our health in multiple ways, including even how we breathe. A yoga teacher/friend told me about sometimes having to work with new students to get them to be able to breathe 'normally' before they can start to be in touch with their bodies. But my doctor/mother always stressed the human body's innate propensity for equilibrium and healing, given a chance, and I kind of rely on that as a guiding principle. So it's worth identifying stressors, including those no-longer present but maybe casting a long shadow. We are more resilient than we know and I find that a comforting notion.

@seathink I agree with childhood traumas, but not only. There are traumas that happened during adulthood. A friend told me that breast cancer on the left side is caused by grief, stress and pain.

Interesting. The heart side. Yeah, I had a pretty insane young adult good too