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I was 49 at age of diagnosis and live in the Seattle area...my onc says Seattle has very high rates of BC....I have no history of it in my family, I had 2 children in my twenties and my 2nd child nursed until she could say "nurse me, Mommy!" I also went for mammograms each year and they were clean.
Vicki brought up a point about Iodine deficiency...I have had a deficient thyroid for 15 years and take Synthroid. I brought up the deficiency with my onc and she said no. I also went through a period the year before my diagnosis when I was really, really low on iron....so low, I didn't get a menstrual period until my doc prescribed iron (I couldn't breathe and kept falling on the soccer field!). I always wondered if the iron being out of whack is what started the cancer. Just some thoughts.
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