Root Causes of Breast Cancer.

Same. 17 years and now the joint pain, muscle pain etc. not fun!

My maternal grandmother died from cancer. My uncle died from cancer. I resemble both of them. My grandfather and father died young from heart disease. My brother resembles them. He has severe heart disease. Neither myself or brother smoked, we weren’t exposed to cigarette smoke, we don’t drink alcohol, we both lead active lives before retirement. It’s in our genes. Maybe not to have those first few rogue cells, but our bodies’ ability to recognize them.

From what I’ve read, you’re probably right. There is some break down in healthy cells, whether it’s genetic or life exposure. They can sit like that for quite a while or never get triggered. But the health of our cellular makeup throughout our body sets up a situation where a damaged cell starts to reproduce. Stress, inflammation, new exposures to carcinogens, hormone imbalance, oxidative stress, and more can mean our cells are not healthy enough to fight.
My stress level was through the roof in those 4-5 years before my DCIS was visible in an ultrasound. I had an intermediate grade nuclear level which evidently can take about 6 years to grow from a cell to about 2 cm.
This was work related stress - but it affected everything in my body. I also had a 9% weight change, lost then regained during that time so my ER+ cancer was no doubt affected by the changes in estrogen and fat.
It seems that researchers are spending more time looking at the makeup of the surrounding parenchyma or cells around the cancer to figure out why some cancers move out into the surrounding area (then move in to blood or lymph system). Some cellular makeup is more friendly to cancer growth. Cells with a healthy homeostasis deter cancer growth.
Anyway, that’s my simplified take on what I’ve been reading,

We all know of incredibly healthy people who get cancer - so it’s not always unhealthy cells fueling cancer to grow. It’s part of being human, although I wish it weren’t so.

I hear you. I was on low dose hormones for 13 years or so. It helped me so much.
It's a drastic change that's for sure.

wow that is so similar to me.

Thank you for this. I can't find rhyme nor reason to why I have breast cancer and others don't. Or why some women do who shouldn't. It is a mystery. But at least I've stopped blaming myself, on top of everything else, that was just exhausting me.

If not genetic its michrondrial. Listen to professor seyfried. It needs glucose and need change diet to stop glucose. Mediterranean diet plant or ketosis with healthy fats to end glucose lower calories. Thats what im doing no drug no chemo!

I’m the only one in my family with cancer. Lived near a golf course in 1970s and 1980s when a lot of pesticides were used, entered our ground water and our water supply. An unusual number of women living near golf course developed breast cancer and men developed other cancers.
Officials still did not declare it a hot spot.
I also worked in a building where also a large number of women developed breast cancer and men other cancers. Also not declared a hot spot.
In addition I had my children after age 35. I had a history of smoking and moderate alcohol use.
All breast cancer markers negative.
Definitely environmental in my case I think.

I don’t believe there is evidence to support this. There are many people in healthy happy relationships with hormone positive breast cancer.

Regarding pesticides, my father used DDT in his garden for 20 years when I was a child.

Medical oncologist discounted this.
But there was an article in SF newspaper in 2012 tying this in.
Medical Oncologist thinks that if this was true, I would have gotten BC much earlier, not over 60 years later.