BREAST FEEDING
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Topic: BREAST FEEDING
Posted By: Nancy
Subject: BREAST FEEDING
Date Posted: Aug 31 2008 at 5:54pm
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Ladies,
Connie has asked me to set up a poll addressing breast feeding. Pam had posted an article on this subject just today, and it stated:
As reported in the journal Cancer , breast feeding for at least 6 months was found to reduce the risk for triple-negative disease (odds ratio {OR}=0.5 and to a lesser extent luminal breast cancer (OR=0.80) compared with breast feeding for less than 6 months.
Connie said that she would like to see if we can get more women to complete this poll, than the 78 cases of triple-negative that this study had reported. I have never set up a poll before, so Pam will have to tell me if I need to edit or change it in any way. I'm not even sure if the poll choices I selected are what we need.
Nancy
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Posted By: trip2
Date Posted: Sep 01 2008 at 7:03am
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Nancy the poll looks fine to me. Maybe someone else might have a suggestion, thanks! ------------- Stage 2 2003 Stage 1 2007 BRCA 1+ |
Posted By: sanjoy
Date Posted: Sep 06 2008 at 9:55am
I had always heard that breast feeding was a way to reduce your risk of breast cancer. I have 3 sons, all of whom I breast fed until they were a year old. Then, with no family history, at the age of 55 in June of 07 I have tnbc. So, obviously for me it didn't help, but I still would have breast fed anyway.  ------------- Sandy dx 6/07 55 yrs stage 2/ grade 3/ positive lymph node neoadj chemo ACT 6 times lumpectomy/13 lymph nodes taken 33 rad. treatments |
Posted By: judithscott
Date Posted: Sep 08 2008 at 2:39pm
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Hi, you are asking about breast feeding, i personally feel that breast feeding is for to less breast cancer the and you can also know more about breast feeding from via searching sites about breast feeding. |
Posted By: kirby
Date Posted: Sep 08 2008 at 2:54pm
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It surely didn't reduce my risk ! I breast fed 2 daughters for over a year each. 7 1/2 years later is when my tumor was found. ------------- kirby dx Feb. 2001. Age 44 Lumpectomy 2cm. no nodes stage 1 grade 3 4 rnds AC, 35 rads |
Posted By: NancyJane
Date Posted: Sep 09 2008 at 9:30am
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Just a thought, however, there is no way to respond that you have never been pregnant. I wonder if we should add that as an option because not breast feeding due to no pregnancy is biologically (hormonally) different than not breast feeding after a pregnancy. ------------- 41yr dx 7/25/08 Lumpectomy and ax node disection (38 nodes, all clean!) 8/12/08 T2 grd 3, N0, TN IDC BRCA1+ ACx4,Tx12 10/08-3/09 prophylactic hyst, ooph,mast & one-step recon 3/30/09 |
Posted By: Nancy
Date Posted: Sep 09 2008 at 2:38pm
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Nancy Jane,
I will try to do what you have suggested, but I don't believe there is another space on the poll. I'll ask Pam.
Nancy
I DID IT NANCY JANE!!
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Posted By: Julia
Date Posted: Jul 22 2009 at 12:43pm
| Well, breastfeeding led to slow diagnosis for me. Because I was still nursing when I found a lump in my breast, my doc and I both assumed it was mastitis, and then an abscess. Took about 3 months before I found out it was cancer. Just bad luck, though. |