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I want women to know about Breast Cancer Prevention....
that there is no such thing.
Even the thought of Breast Cancer Prevention is a sweet fiction like lighting a candle for Santa Clause each year.
We with HER2 Breast Cancer have been doing our self-exams for years, our mammograms only beginning at age forty, eating anti-cancer foods, listening to doctors tell us our mom's breast cancer was not the "familial kind" so we had nothing to fear (only BCRA or whatever it is called have to fear that..while not giving us that actual test) and feeling great relief when the follow up mammograms were negative (finding out years later they were false negative as HER2 lines the ducts silently for YEARS before bursting up into a late stage cancer) and all the smug B.C fundraisers were lying all along. Maybe not in certain people's cases....but if you have HER2 your breast cancer was likely undetectable til stage three or four.....and if your mammogram was a false negative....your take might be less "candle for santa claus" than "outright lying".
Prevention is impossible.
It isn't your fault if it happens.
Ovarian cancer and other cancers which cannot be detected early are like HER2 Breast Cancer. Not your fault. Not subject to reason and rational prevention.
My mom had breast cancer and was a reed-thin skinny health freak all her life who NEVER drank or smoked.
Not your fault.
Not your fault.
Not your fault.
Let me be clearer: if God forbid you get Breast or any other cancer: It is Not Your Fault.
You cannot avoid it. You cannot prevent it.
You are, however, our sister, and we are here for you. We pray for you, we pray for each other. And everyday we give thanks that we are on here, on this website, together, forever.