Re: genetic link for fibroid formation

[Guest guest]

Will do. This sounds like a very scientific study. Maybe we should do a

survey of our own that expands to issues such as stress and types of

food intake. In my case, no genetic link: I don't think my grand-mother

had fibroid. I have one sister, and either she nor my mother has

fibroid.

Jackie

genetic link for fibroid formation

> I was wondering if there is any " known cause " that is scientific and

> documented for these invaders???

I came across a study that is being conducted at Brigham and Womens hospital in

Boston looking for genetic explanations of fibroid formation. If you have a

sister who also has fibroids they would be very interested in having your family

participate. check out :

http://www.fibroids.net/html/study1.htm

contact phone for this study is 1-

[Guest guest]

Another resource

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/fibroids/home.htm

> > I was wondering if there is any " known cause " that is

> > scientific and documented for these invaders?????

[Guest guest]

Hi, Jackie,

Since the majority of women with fibroids do not have symptoms and

may never be told they have them, I'm not sure we can state with

accuracy that we don't have a genetic connection for our fibroids

just because no other woman in our family has been diagnosed with

them.

Regarding your idea about a poll to find out a connetion between

stress and food, and fibroids, we do have a polling feature on our

Yahoo! Groups website and anyone is free to use it. I'm not sure if

Carla Dionne, as the owner/moderator of the group, has to approve

your poll or not before it goes online. If she does, there'll be a

slight delay as she's away right now until the 31st.

And just a comment on the validity of any poll done here. Setting up

a valid scientific study is more than just asking questions about

someone's perceived level of stress or food intake. For a start,

we're too small a group for our results to have validity. We would

need to define " stress " very precisely and need to be sure that every

woman who responded understood the definition and was using the same

criteria to measure her stress.

Food questions, to be valid, really need to involve a food diary kept

by the subjects for a period of time. Researchers have found out

that self-reported memories of what people ate over a period of time

differ markedly from diaries showing actual food consumption day-by-

day.

There's a research truism that states that just because two things

occur simultaneously, this does not prove that the one caused the

other. For instance, I bought a puppy and then broke my leg.

Conclusion: Puppies cause broken legs. It's pretty obvious here

that we'd need to know a lot more about the circumstances before we

could say that that conclusion is true. For one, we'd need to know

just what the connection between the puppy and the broken leg was.

The same principle holds even when the connection, or maybe I should

say " disconnection " isn't so obvious. So you can see that setting up

a valid research study is fairly complicated.

To conduct a poll here can be interesting and even give us something

to speculate on, but it's unlikely that we could design a poll that

could really tell us something scientific about our fibroids.

Leonie

> Will do. This sounds like a very scientific study. Maybe we should

do a

> survey of our own that expands to issues such as stress and types of

> food intake. In my case, no genetic link: I don't think my grand-

mother

> had fibroid. I have one sister, and either she nor my mother has

> fibroid.

>

> Jackie