Thank you. I had a breast specialist go over this with me a few years ago. My totals are low like yours but what I did notice and asked was why diet wasn’t a factor and she said it didn’t matter. Come on, if I was overweight and ate mostly ultra processed food I find that hard to believe that would not be a factor in increasing risk. She was advocating for me, at such a low risk, to take an EUA 3D contrast mammogram being tested in Austin. I’ve opted not to do mammograms anymore and use a digital thermal screening not covered by insurance of course. That is highly frowned upon and I was lectured for most of the appointment on how this is not FDA approved. It just seems like doing these more invasive screenings are going to expose you to more radiation, unknown color contrast issues and will catch things that may never end up being cancer.
Thanks for pointing out diet, weight and lifestyle as being important as breast cancer prevention. Traditional doctors are never taught that. No money in that.
As a guy who is BRCA positive, I get regular screenings. The BRCA runs strong in my family. Somehow I managed to not pass it on. My wife must have VERY dominant genes. He He Getting the screening and treatment is better than ignoring it and letting the cancer kill you. I've seen close relatives in both situations and while the treatments are no picnic, death by breast cancer is horrible. Get screened for the BRCA gene if you even suspect that breast cancer "runs in your family". Men too.
I experience intimate human contact every six months. I think they skip the ovarian cancer screening, but I get the other two. I'm sure my primary care provider and I are going steady by now.
Thank you. I had a breast specialist go over this with me a few years ago. My totals are low like yours but what I did notice and asked was why diet wasn’t a factor and she said it didn’t matter. Come on, if I was overweight and ate mostly ultra processed food I find that hard to believe that would not be a factor in increasing risk. She was advocating for me, at such a low risk, to take an EUA 3D contrast mammogram being tested in Austin. I’ve opted not to do mammograms anymore and use a digital thermal screening not covered by insurance of course. That is highly frowned upon and I was lectured for most of the appointment on how this is not FDA approved. It just seems like doing these more invasive screenings are going to expose you to more radiation, unknown color contrast issues and will catch things that may never end up being cancer.
Thanks for pointing out diet, weight and lifestyle as being important as breast cancer prevention. Traditional doctors are never taught that. No money in that.
Totally agree with both of you! Diet should definitely be included in this!
As a guy who is BRCA positive, I get regular screenings. The BRCA runs strong in my family. Somehow I managed to not pass it on. My wife must have VERY dominant genes. He He Getting the screening and treatment is better than ignoring it and letting the cancer kill you. I've seen close relatives in both situations and while the treatments are no picnic, death by breast cancer is horrible. Get screened for the BRCA gene if you even suspect that breast cancer "runs in your family". Men too.
Don't forget that breast, prostate and ovarian are the same gene.
For some reason the doctors never tell about the genes.
I experience intimate human contact every six months. I think they skip the ovarian cancer screening, but I get the other two. I'm sure my primary care provider and I are going steady by now.
Hope things go well for you.
As a two time survivor, I've been reading these two Substacks... I find them interesting. If you haven't seen them. I'd recommend at least reading.
https://open.substack.com/pub/2ndsmartestguyintheworld?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lm719
This one has lots of case reports.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fenbendazole?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lm719
The test would not let me do anything with the sub-race ethnicity question. It, therefore, would not calculate anything.
Well damn. 🤦🏼♀️
My thoughts exactly, but it's through no fault of yours. It could be my phone interface. Who knows?
Do it on a computer, I had trouble on my phone as well.
The computer I don't own? Yeah, I'll get right on that.