6/10/2008 1:18 AM
Julie wrote:
(Come on....You gotta keep your sense of humor!)
Why do men get prostate cancer? Did you know that about 1 man in 6 will get prostate cancer during his lifetime? Why one main factor, of course, is gender. It's the same for women and breast cancer.
Have you ever wondered who and why women get breast cancer? In Orange County, CA, 1 in 8 women get it. It's my tendency to try to control things that makes me think WHY ME? Of all the risk factors, I have all of them, except I don't drink alcohol and I didn't inherit a gene for it:
Common Risk factors Include:
Not having children or having them later in life Not breast feeding Being overweight Lack of regular exercise (since my accident I haven't walked or lifted weights as much as before) Use of Oral Contraceptives Having cysts seen in earlier mammograms/sonagrams High stress lifestyle Started menstruating at an early age (before 12)
You may want to k now that there are factors that DO NOT HAVE AN IMPACT, but there are rumors that they do:
Using antipersperants Wearing a bra
pfft!
Some activities that MAY or MAY NOT be associated with breast cancer include:
heating up food in the microwave on/in plastic
working a night shift (nurse, counselor, waitress, etc)
pollution
smoking
Of course, having a risk factor, or even several, does not mean that you will get the disease. Most women who have one or more breast cancer risk factors never develop the disease, while many women with breast cancer have no apparent risk factors. WTF! Even when a woman with breast cancer has a risk factor, there is no way to prove that it actually caused her cancer. It is all correlational research.
Anyway, I've just been wondering about this stuff a lot. I like to be preventative in my psychology work and in the rest of my life (why suffer needlessly?). So, if I knew how to prevnt this, I would have liked to do that.
I know I would not have had a child just to make sure I didn't get breast cancer. That's pretty silly. It just didn't work out that way. I love kids, but the timing wasn't right.
Anyway, just thought you all might want to know these things!
Some things that seem to benefit people or protect them from cancer is eating the anti-cancer diet:
5 fruits and vegetables a day High Iron vegetables (dark green, leafy) and meat Reply to this
6/10/2008 9:06 AM
Garth Mundle wrote:
HI Julie, Thanks for the humour. I check your blog regularly. Having had radical prostrate surgery 12 years ago I want to tell men. Get checked and remember that what goes on in the genital department is not a definition of who you are and neither is it the end of the world if you need treatment. My surgeon said ' You might be impotent following treatment". To which i repleid " my penis might be but I will be as potent as I ever was. Peace, Garth Reply to this
6/10/2008 10:19 AM
Julie wrote:
Wow, that's right! And, thanks for enjoying my sick sense of humor! I love your attitude, too! Thanks for helping me to keep my attitude up.
(Come on....You gotta keep your sense of humor!)
Why do men get prostate cancer? Did you know that about 1 man in 6 will get prostate cancer during his lifetime? Why one main factor, of course, is gender. It's the same for women and breast cancer.
Have you ever wondered who and why women get breast cancer? In Orange County, CA, 1 in 8 women get it. It's my tendency to try to control things that makes me think WHY ME? Of all the risk factors, I have all of them, except I don't drink alcohol and I didn't inherit a gene for it:
Common Risk factors Include:
Not having children or having them later in life
Not breast feeding
Being overweight
Lack of regular exercise (since my accident I haven't walked or lifted weights as much as before)
Use of Oral Contraceptives
Having cysts seen in earlier mammograms/sonagrams
High stress lifestyle
Started menstruating at an early age (before 12)
You may want to k now that there are factors that DO NOT HAVE AN IMPACT, but there are rumors that they do:
Using antipersperants
Wearing a bra
pfft!
Some activities that MAY or MAY NOT be associated with breast cancer include:
heating up food in the microwave on/in plastic
working a night shift (nurse, counselor, waitress, etc)
pollution
smoking
Of course, having a risk factor, or even several, does not mean that you will get the disease. Most women who have one or more breast cancer risk factors never develop the disease, while many women with breast cancer have no apparent risk factors. WTF! Even when a woman with breast cancer has a risk factor, there is no way to prove that it actually caused her cancer. It is all correlational research.
Anyway, I've just been wondering about this stuff a lot. I like to be preventative in my psychology work and in the rest of my life (why suffer needlessly?). So, if I knew how to prevnt this, I would have liked to do that.
I know I would not have had a child just to make sure I didn't get breast cancer. That's pretty silly. It just didn't work out that way. I love kids, but the timing wasn't right.
Anyway, just thought you all might want to know these things!
Some things that seem to benefit people or protect them from cancer is eating the anti-cancer diet:
5 fruits and vegetables a day
High Iron vegetables (dark green, leafy) and meat
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HI Julie, Thanks for the humour. I check your blog regularly. Having had radical prostrate surgery 12 years ago I want to tell men. Get checked and remember that what goes on in the genital department is not a definition of who you are and neither is it the end of the world if you need treatment.
My surgeon said ' You might be impotent following treatment". To which i repleid " my penis might be but I will be as potent as I ever was. Peace, Garth
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Wow, that's right! And, thanks for enjoying my sick sense of humor! I love your attitude, too! Thanks for helping me to keep my attitude up.
Julie
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