By Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Provided by: Johns Hopkins University

Breast Cancer Chronicles

Breast Cancer: How to Reduce the Risk By Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. - Posted Wed, Oct 01, 2008, 10:00 am PDT

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  • 16. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 12:18 pm PDT

    I'm sorry, did you just waste my time with eat right, avoid alcohol, and exercise? Well duh...

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  • 17. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 12:18 pm PDT

    BS!!!!! NOBODY KNOWS WHY WE GET CANCER. ARE WE GENETICALLY PREDISPOSED..... MAYBE!!!!!!!

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  • 18. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 12:22 pm PDT

    SEAN IS A MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • 19. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 12:49 pm PDT

    Alcohol should be zero-ed out. It is a real killer.

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  • 20. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 12:54 pm PDT

    In addition to adding warning about using ANY sort of estrogen-based hormones (in addition to birth control pills) or having an abortion, how about adding a suggestion for women to be allowed to have a baseline mammogram starting at age 25? Why not add THAT preventive measure to women's health care regimen in addition to the heavily marketed cervical cancer vaccine??

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  • 21. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 1:03 pm PDT

    I did two out of the four things, but at 36, I ended up with breast cancer. Why don't you talk about all the pesticides and chemicals we put in our foods? Why don't you talk about taking birth control pills? Why don't you look at our environment for not only the things that cause breast cancer, but ALL cancers?

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  • 22. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 1:07 pm PDT

    Please email every story you read like this to all of the women in your life. You owe it to them. http://uncleraysvegetarianrecipes.blogspot.com

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  • 23. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 1:13 pm PDT

    Well, wow, exercise, eat healthy, don't smoke, don't drink too much???? Who would ever have believed that such things would improve your health? It amazes me that people need to be told these things. Heck, follow those steps and not only will your chance of cancer go down, you'll have better skin, breath, teeth, moods (pms is no excuse to be female dogs), you'll live longer, look younger, be happier, and over all come across as much more intelligent than the people who complain about being overweight and unhappy and then go to McDonald's. Only don't just power walk, at least jog thirty minutes, crunches, pushups and hopefully more. If you go to a gym, use real weights, not hand weights. I'm a girl, I can do squats, deadlifts and bench presses and I definitely don't look like one of the scary male hormone ingesting body builders. The standard bar without added weights is 45 pounds, you can at least squat and deadlift that unless you are excessively overweight, then start with treadmill and resistence. I am tired of women not exercising properly: I go to the gym and the skinny girls with no muscles are bouncing on the elliptical machines and using five pound weights: that won't keep the weight off when you get a few years older, and having real muscles from real weights and running and you can eat more because muscle burns calories just sitting there! Elliptical and stair machines don't use all the muscles that running and doing actual stairs do, there's no pushing yourself away from the ground. Stop being wimps and hiding behind "girls can't do weights, we'll get big ugly man muscles and boys will think we aren't feminine enough and I'm just too weak cuz I'm a girl...sob!" That's crap and we all know it! I'm a girl. I have lost at least 70 pounds of fat over the last year and a half by not inhaling vitamin water (regular water has electrolytes and no sodium, sugar or calories: which one do you think will help you lose weight???) and sodas and all that crap and working out, hey I don't even like most sugary stuff now because food is disgustingly over-sweetened in America far too often. Guys like girls who have athletic bodies: athletic bodies are hot. They also like knowing what you actually look like in the mornings as apposed to what your favorite ten million makeups on your face all at once look like. I talk to guys, and get their honest opinions, I have many friends who are guys. Girl muscles do not get huge and have veins popping out unless we take male hormones and work out 4 or 5 hours a day. That's nature, we are smaller and feminine looking no matter if we do real work outs. I find it horrible that articles aimed at women's health always say to do these things that we should be doing automatically. If you have ten minutes free time a day, that's enough time to do push ups and sit ups. Women's health magazines are crap too. Do lighter weights and the same things the guys are doing-you'll burn more calories, look better, and gain more respect from health conscious men. grr.

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  • 24. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 1:25 pm PDT

    Not to mention that so long as you check yourself regularly and get mamograms regularly, you have very, very, very little chance of dying from breast cancer. Treatments for breast cancer are very effective these days. Actually, I'd like to see more money go into researching the more rare cancers, because most of the common ones are being caught relatively quickly and handled well. There are a lot of far worse cancers to have than breast cancer: yes people have died or had their boobs removed, but the deaths have gone way down recently and the generations who make the high statistics for breast cancer are mostly over thirty and forty, so they didn't exactly grow up in a health conscious society. Also, I believe that the problems caused by birth control have been mostly handled, and frankly, not getting unplanned pregnancy is worth it to me. If you get the good brands (many different pills out there, the more recently developed, the more problems that will be ironed out) it doesn't have as much effect. If you compare with other cancers, like skin cancer, it is entirely likely that what the middle aged women now were exposed to when younger (lead paint, etc) has far more effect on their risk of cancer. One bad sunburn as a kid can give you skin cancer when you get older (another thing: don't deliberately tan! It burns your freaking skin! Burns are bad! Ask any doctor! Even naturally darker skin should be protected in the sun! Use your brains!). If a sun burn when you're seven can give you skin cancer at fifty, than all the crap that people were exposed to in the 60's, 70's, 80's and before, that had effect. And now bad crap is getting more common again. Frankly, parents need to take more responsibility to what children are exposed to. When I begged for fries and soda, my mom almost always said no. Just cuz it comes with a free toy and highly sweetened with corn syrup fruit doesn't make it appropriate for children to eat. Your childhood effects the rest of your life, take care of your kids. Yes, I get exasperated with common ignorance and foolishness. Sorry if it offends, but people need to take more responsibility for themselves and what they do and the choices they make.

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  • 25. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 1:26 pm PDT

    Not to mention that so long as you check yourself regularly and get mamograms regularly, you have very, very, very little chance of dying from breast cancer. Treatments for breast cancer are very effective these days. Actually, I'd like to see more money go into researching the more rare cancers, because most of the common ones are being caught relatively quickly and handled well. There are a lot of far worse cancers to have than breast cancer: yes people have died or had their boobs removed, but the deaths have gone way down recently and the generations who make the high statistics for breast cancer are mostly over thirty and forty, so they didn't exactly grow up in a health conscious society. Also, I believe that the problems caused by birth control have been mostly handled, and frankly, not getting unplanned pregnancy is worth it to me. If you get the good brands (many different pills out there, the more recently developed, the more problems that will be ironed out) it doesn't have as much effect. If you compare with other cancers, like skin cancer, it is entirely likely that what the middle aged women now were exposed to when younger (lead paint, etc) has far more effect on their risk of cancer. One bad sunburn as a kid can give you skin cancer when you get older (another thing: don't deliberately tan! It burns your freaking skin! Burns are bad! Ask any doctor! Even naturally darker skin should be protected in the sun! Use your brains!). If a sun burn when you're seven can give you skin cancer at fifty, than all the crap that people were exposed to in the 60's, 70's, 80's and before, that had effect. And now bad crap is getting more common again. Frankly, parents need to take more responsibility to what children are exposed to. When I begged for fries and soda, my mom almost always said no. Just cuz it comes with a free toy and highly sweetened with corn syrup fruit doesn't make it appropriate for children to eat. Your childhood effects the rest of your life, take care of your kids. Yes, I get exasperated with common ignorance and foolishness. Sorry if it offends, but people need to take more responsibility for themselves and what they do and the choices they make.

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  • 26. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 3:49 pm PDT

    Cancer is a fungus (Candida). It can be cured inexpensively in three ways. (1) high dose Cayenne Pepper throughout the day. (2) Pharmaceutical grade intravenous sodium bicarbonate. (3) Distilled and extracted hemp oil (not the seed). http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/ http://www.phoenixtears.ca/ http://hubpages.com/hub/How-I-Cured-Stage-4-Cancer-in-Two-Weeks-For-Less-Than-The-Cost-Of-A-Night-At-The-Movies Yes, if you only listen to the popular media, you only know mediocrity. If you're interested in reversing hair loss go here: www.Immortalhair.org

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  • 27. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 4:12 pm PDT

    Now that you read the three cures, here's what I have to say about the original article here: Alcohol does feed Candida (Cancer) so that isn't a bad idea, but you need to live once in a while. Lack of iodine allows estrogen to go out of control. RDA iodine levels are too low. See my site here for info: http://www.freewebs.com/immortalhair/physiology.htm Anything of a grain that sits in storage after harvest often contains mycotoxins. These fuel Candida/Cancer. Fat is not the enemy. But a low Omega-3 to Omega-6 is bad. The solution is to increase Omega-3, and decrease Omega-6. Eat all the saturated fat you want. Vegetable oils are want you want to limit your intake of. Why, it's too predominate in Omega-6. Opt for Grass-fed beef, it's loaded in omega-3. Forget mammograms. They increase cancer risk. If you are worried then get a thermography. They give you real notice. Avoid getting cut, burned and poisoned, they just don't work. Read my previous post for cures.

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  • 28. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 4:31 pm PDT

    Breast feed your baby!

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  • 29. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 4:35 pm PDT

    OMG, they've let the "food experts" out of their cages to spread more misinformation. Eating a low fat diet is the worst thing you can do and they never, ever touch on what is really causing breast cancer. It's truly amazing to see these "food experts" that are nothing more than "hired guns" of the food industry espouse their marketing garbage on uninformed public. They fully admit they don't have a clue what causes breast cancer and yet promote things like a low fat diet. Where in the world did they get that information? From the DOGMA started by the ego maniac Ancel Keys perhaps? Most likely. Do they actually believe eating fat will cause breast cancer? Why then did primitive man eat mostly animal meats loaded with saturated fats and very little fruits and vegetables and not get breast cancer? They had perfect teeth with NO cavities, No jaw formation problems, and very resistant to diseases, especially things like T.B. that other people eating so called "modern diets" were dying of regularly. There is NO mention of the problems so called "modern dentistry" is causing in regard to breast cancer. The literature is very clear and conclusive and yet, these "hired guns" never seem to bring this up, but still freely admit that they "don't know what is causing breast cancer." Simply amazing!

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  • 30. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 12, 2008, 4:40 pm PDT

    Isn't that the exact list every doctor gives for preventing every type of illness?

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