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morgandawn is this interesting as hell article on cancer and cancer prevention.
Of surprise to me is that more women at high risk for breast cancer aren't doing the five year Tamoxifen thing. It's useless to me with my hormone negative status, but it's kind of a wonder drug. It prevents cancer, and it treats cancer (even metastatic, there are stage IV women who live for years taking nothing but tamoxifen). That's some good shit, and far less invasive than other options for high risk women like a prophylactic mastectomy. And definitely less invasive than full on cancer treatment (plus, having cancer).
And then I nearly fell off my chair laughing going to the link that predicts your individual risk for breast cancer. I did the form as of the time *before* I was diagnosed just for shits and giggles to see what it would say. I had a 0.6 percent risk of developing breast cancer in the next five years when I got it. ZERO POINT SIX. seriously?!?
Whatever, I have only ONE MORE WEEK of radiation left, and then I get to be done. DONE. Maybe I'll stop being utterly boring and have something to talk about that isn't cancer.
morgandawn is this interesting as hell article on cancer and cancer prevention. Of surprise to me is that more women at high risk for breast cancer aren't doing the five year Tamoxifen thing. It's useless to me with my hormone negative status, but it's kind of a wonder drug. It prevents cancer, and it treats cancer (even metastatic, there are stage IV women who live for years taking nothing but tamoxifen). That's some good shit, and far less invasive than other options for high risk women like a prophylactic mastectomy. And definitely less invasive than full on cancer treatment (plus, having cancer).
And then I nearly fell off my chair laughing going to the link that predicts your individual risk for breast cancer. I did the form as of the time *before* I was diagnosed just for shits and giggles to see what it would say. I had a 0.6 percent risk of developing breast cancer in the next five years when I got it. ZERO POINT SIX. seriously?!?
Whatever, I have only ONE MORE WEEK of radiation left, and then I get to be done. DONE. Maybe I'll stop being utterly boring and have something to talk about that isn't cancer.