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Leaving the Fear of
Breast Cancer Behind
Women fear breast cancer more than any other disease.This is true even though a woman in the United States is ten times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than she is breast cancer. Part of the reason for this fear is that women are told there’s nothing that can be done to prevent breast cancer. They’re told only to get a yearly mammogram hoping to find it at an earlier, more treatable stage. And now, even that’s controversial.
Western medicine is so focused on family history as the overriding risk factor for breast cancer that not much else is ever discussed. The problem is, no one can do anything about their family history. It is what it is. This places a woman in a powerless position in terms of her breast cancer risk. But only 25% of all cases of breast cancer occur in women with a family history. What about the other 75%?
Can we really be so dogmatic that breast cancer can’t be prevented when we don’t know what’s causing three-quarters of the cases? Something is causing this disease. The incidence has tripled in the last 60 years. The lifetime breast cancer risk was 1 in 22 in the 1940s. It’s 1 in 8 today.
Trying to obtain information about breast cancer risk can be as confusing as it is overwhelming. So many questions. So few concrete answers. So much information. So much of it contradictory. Does it matter what I eat? Should I take vitamins? What about stress? Are emotional and psychological factors important? What about toxins in the environment?
The traditional medical view is that none of this matters. But there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. Even though there is no proven causative link for breast cancer like there is between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, and even though many published studies are contradictory, there are reasonable steps you can take that are likely to significantly decrease your risk. These happen to be the same steps that will help you battle the disease or decrease your risk of recurrence if you’ve already been diagnosed.
The key to good health and cancer prevention lies more in your own hands than you might think. The focus of this website as well as my upcoming book, Journey to Hope, is self care, which means learning to do for yourself what the medical system cannot do for you.
My goal is to simplify your breast cancer journey (every woman has one, even if it’s only deciding what to do about a mammogram), help calm the waters, and dispel the current medical dogma that there’s nothing you can do to prevent this disease. The good news is—there’s a lot you can do. The bad news is—your doctor can’t do it for you. You have to do it for yourself.
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