I saw this article on the news forum....
"Women who gain weight throughout adulthood rather than maintaining a stable weight may have an increased risk for breast cancer, according to a report in the October 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."
I wondered how many of us gain weight during treatment and how many lose weight and how many stay about the same... and because I gained 20 pounds with treatment (which included dexamethasone), I wondered how much of the weight gain caused by treatment adds to the risk. It sounds like weight loss wasn't a good thing, either.
I've seen some posts by bc survivors who said they refused the steroids that are given with treatment and they said they did fine without them. I just wonder how necessary the steroids really are, and if they actually might increase our risk. The weight gain itself is hard enough to deal with without any ADDED risk, since it is both depressing AND means we are creating more aromatase with every pound gained.
Pondering,
AlaskaAngel
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