What caused my cancer?

I think vitamin D plays a significant role. My daughter, now a beautiful adult was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 8 years old. At the time, her vitamin D level was negligible. Even after taking high doses prescribed by endocrinologists her level remained low. She has since developed other autoimmune diseases. My vitamin D level at diagnosis was very low and I am currently taking extra D. My grandmother had numerous autoimmune diseases and died from cancer. Her D probably low too but those things not checked back in those days. I just think there are a number of pieces to this puzzle

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I agree, there are many different things that could or would contribute to our getting cancer. I was young and had breasts.
With all the vast amounts of study and research, all of the other risk factors “can contribute to” but we all have breasts. It is the one absolute common denominator.

Thanks for the funny comment! A nice way to start the day. Iv'e always wondered why those foot xrays the shoe stores had didn't cause cancer in the 50's. We kids would run inside the store every chance we got to take a look at the bones in our feet.

Agreed about Vitamin D. Mine was 30 at time of diagnosis and I have been taking supplements since. Many times this is not checked during routine bloodwork-you have to ask for it. It’s important!

Best wishes to all, Cindy

This is wild that to you mentioned these devices! My husband has Parkinson’s and we were discussing possible reasons (as well as my triple negative BC). He mentioned that his grandfather had a general store and that there was a fluoroscope to scan your feet. Of course it was viewed as a novelty and no one thought anything about possible repercussions.

We’ll never know…

Cindy

My husband died with Parkinsons. He grew up in another town. Idon't know if they used flouriscopes near him. He couldn't just walk downtown any tiime he wanted like I could.

Parkinson disease is absolutely linked to pesticides and heavy metal exposure. Neuroxin pesticides gave my mother cog- wheel Parkinsons. They sprayed her apartment hallway, and kitchen for cockroaches 1 month for the 20 years she lived there. Other toxins are trichlorethylene, ( dry cleaning), 2,4- D, ( almost the same as Agent Orange), permethrin, rotenone. Dry cleaners, exposed to dry cleaning fluids, have a 500% increase in Parkinsons. Farmers are having an enormous increase in Parkinsons, with the products they spray. There is a HUGE increase in Breast Cancer, because of toxic exposures. I am a baby boomer, who is seeing her high school class dying from cancer, M.S. and ALS, at a high level. I have high levels of chlordane and PCB. Get tested, every one!

I read something interesting today. People developing breast cancer may have large sugar cravings. In the few years before mine was found I was eating and making cookes constantly. Now I don't have those cravings since the lumpectomy.

Interesting theory. I've had a major sweet tooth my entire life so I wouldn't have noticed anything different. Post-mastectomy still have a huge sweet tooth. 🙂