Root Causes of Breast Cancer.

I replying to my own thread as it’s a bit out context. I do think there’s a correlation with environmental factors for many types of cancers.

Should stress levels be on this chart? Or are they implied in certain categories? Or did I miss it.

As a native Austinite and 8th generation Texan, who lived there for 51 years, I also advise: get out of Texas. Or at least move to West Texas. Anywhere with cleaner air. There used to be a state law saying chemical plants had to tell nearby communities what chemicals were present at the plant. But the Texas legislature did away with that rule so chemical and oil industry plants can poison you at will. A plant in East Texas, right next to a river, is pumping out a carcinogenic gas, I think it's chlordane, at levels much higher than is considered safe. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) does zero to protect human health and does not in reality enforcement its own regs. There is even chlordane in the fish. If a plant blows up, humans won't have even a fighting chance to protect their health. The 13,000 ft. haze layer, from copious fracking just east of I35, from north to south in a big state, now hovers over Austin, unless a front clears the air temporarily.

My husband is a retired airline pilot. He said he routinely had to climb above 13,000 ft. to get out of the haze layer. He also had a bird's eye view of the lights at night from fracking wells running the full length of the state. It makes me very sad my home state is being rendered as unhealthy as possible. Because of money for a greedy few.

Thank you! Since hormone positive breast cancer is about 70-80 % and divorce rates are 50%, both are quite common. But I can't see how one causes the other. I'm very happily happy married (to my high school sweetie after many intervening decades) and I have hormone positive breast cancer. Certainly either of these problems can make other problems feel worse, though! I don't know what caused my breast cancer, but I will take some credit for the optimism to fall in love again after I was widowed at 41--and maybe the good sense to choose a guy I already trusted and was compatible with.

Super similar situation at my house. My husband just wants to pretend its the same thing as his skin cancer. He has never had a surgery, so he can"t really relate. Its super frustrating.

Probably. I am not looking at this chart in its most literal sense, but only as an illustration that it’s complicated trying a to pull one thread and say that’s the reason for disease. The human body is so complex!

Ugh. I think because I am upright taking care of business he thinks its not serious

Mine is stress related .That’s what the doctors said . Since I have always been so healthy except when I am super stressed

Thank you for sharing this!❤️

Mine as well continued to prescribe PremPro, even as I approached 70 years. She never recommended stopping and doesn’t want to see me now, after my diagnosis. Amazing…