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What caused my cancer?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 10, 2023 | Replies (30)

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@gina5009

I read your post with interest, and for myself I believe flooroscope amd chest x-rays caused me to have breast cancer at such a young age. When I was 13, my school gave the Tuberculin Test and mine came up positive. They then insisted I have a chest x-ray which showed something looking positive and the City of SanFrancisco insisted I had to be put in the hospital. My mother tried her best to convince them that what they were seeing on my lung was from Pneumonia but no one would listen. I spent 1 year hospitalized. Never had a positive sputum. but was flouroscoped every month and x-rayed every two or three months. Nothing ever changed on my lung and after a year they let me go home. Knowing what we know today about x-ray exposure, particularly at such a young age, I believe this was the cause.
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Thank you, Gina, for sharing your story. That is so awful and sad that you spent a year in the hospital! I too wonder about X-ray exposure. I am 70 now, but when I was in my mid forties I had something respiratory going on. I went to my primary care physician who ordered an X-ray to be performed in office. The tech was new and put me very close to X-ray machine (maybe a foot or less). Images were blurry so she repeated a couple more times. Finally she told the doctor she was having trouble and the doctor moved me to the proper distance.

There are other factors that come to mind, but who knows if there was an impact from this event.

Best wishes, Cindy