Sandy, thanks for responding. I should have added a question concerning hysterectomies. In this clinical study it reads that when estradiol decreases ... HER2/neu increases. Very interesting. This study was about a shut down of hormones during chemo but wouldn't a hysterectomy work too? Also, Sandy states that she was under a lot of stress. When cortisol (stress hormone) is elevated ... it down regulates estrogen. Perhaps for some of us, there may be something to this. Of course it doesn't show it initiates the cancer but it may be part of the puzzle.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract