[RobinP]

Oh, sure, like many, I've wondered why bc happened to me because I wanted to know what I could have and should have done to prevent it. However, I'm afraid, I'll never have that answer, as science has not yet revealed it fully. However, I believe that taking the birth control pill before my first pregnancy for several months put me at risk, as this is a newly discovered risk factor. Personally, I think the FDA should be shot for allowing widespread HRT and birth control without informed consent and proper testing. The kind of warning on these meds should be a black box, somewhat like Herceptin's black box warning.

Besides birth control putting me at risk, I also wonder if I had the genetic make-up for it since both of my grandmothers died of bc, since my great grandma had colon cancer, and since my father has had basal cell skin carcinmona, along with myself.

Outside of genetics and hormonal causes, I also sustained a crushing injury to my breast where within a year my cancerous breast lump happened to showed up. Science will tell you that breast injuries don't cause bc. However, I wonder if it could in a situation where you already had some hyperplasia going on and injury is just the next insult to cause progression of that hyperplasia to cancer.

Lord, who knows EXACTLY why I got bc when I ate well, was thin, never drank, and never smoked or did drugs. I just don't know what caused it precisely. Though, if I had it to do over again, I would definitely avoid birth control pills and I would wear steel shields to protect those babies; either that or have them cut off completely and hang on the mantel for decoration-haha.