Guest guest Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Hi Lynn, No, my doctor is not a gyno. He is an MD but has a more natural holistic practice and does stuff like chelation therapy. He is very pro BHRT too. He told me about seeing so many people with breast cancer one time when I was asking him about endometrium cancer which he said he has hardly ever seen except a few times in his 30 plus years of practicing. I think he was just trying to make a point of how breast cancer was much more prevalent. So sad and now it has really hit close to home with my friend and real estate agent finding a lump week before last. She is thin, active and healthy at 50 something and lived a very conservative life. Never a drinker, smoker or did drugs of any kind, much less an antibiotic. She was a nurse for about 10 years. But I also don't think she eats anymore than an average american diet and told me she wasn't into supplements at all. I think not being able to have children, and nurse babies puts her in the higher risk category. Her hormones had been screwed up(not being able to conceive) and she has had a lot of hair loss these past few years plus quite a bit of stress around 10 years ago going through a nasty divorce and then she lost her oldest adopted daughter to kidney disease. Life had finally balanced out and things were good again, then breast cancer. Her surgeon told her not to worry, that he could fix this and she would live to be an old woman though. Hope that is right after all the radiation and chemo she will go through. > Sonii, I'm not sure what your doc means by this. If he is a gyno, I'm sure > he must see 20-30 patients a day, some of whom must have a history of breast > cancer given the incidence of the disease. > > Is he trying to say hormone replacement causes breast cancer? If he is, > would you please get him to refer you the published evidence? Not a press > release, but the actual scientific article? Madeleen and I have read widely in the > scientific literature and found no statistically significant increase in > breast cancer other than a slight increase in women taking PremPro. > > It appears to be the (synthetic) progestin in the combo that causes this > because women without a uterus taking Premarin alone (according to the Women's > Health Initiative) got less breast cancer than women taking NO HRT. > > Even the Prempro group got 40% less colon cancer. > > Thanks for raising this subject! > Lynne > > Sonii writes: > > My doctor said he sees 4-5 women a week with breast > cancer. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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