Hormone therapy possible culprit for Marin's high breast cancer rate

Marin's women only drink alcohol, they don't ever smoke pot (mimics female hormones, by the way) or use other recreational chemicals. For sure, really.

Doctors, this is why I don't trust you!! Your drugs you're pushing on us make us sick.

Stay young, stay desirable. Die of Cancer. It almost took my wife until she stopped using them and went through a month of radiation treatment. Yes, it's true. You don't have to "suspect" anything.

I don't buy this for one bit. Everyone one I know with BC, including myself, is under the age of 50 and pre-menopausal. There is something else going on in Marin and it isn't hormone therepy.

Interesting how they don't spell out what type of hormone therapy is used. Don't confuse bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BRT) with estrogen replacement therapy like the type found in Premarin, which has been shown to cause cancer for years. But of course, you don't hear much about BHT because pharmaceutical companies can't patent something that is created by nature. Don't be misled - BRT is safe and effective - Premarin causes cancer.

MarinMom wrote:

I don't buy this for one bit. Everyone one I know with BC, including myself, is under the age of 50 and pre-menopausal. There is something else going on in Marin and it isn't hormone therepy.

I agree there is something else going on in Marin. I've had two sisters who lived in Marin with breast cancer, both premenopausal and early 40s when diagnosed.

What's in the "steam" that is coming out of the styrofoam factory that is upwind from Marin's major shopping centers, The Village, Town Center, Book Passage and the D.M.V.?
Lots of toxic chemicals?
It's time to close this major polluter in our midst.
Marin County has just banned the use of styrofoam containers for environmental reason. Why is the styrofoam factory still working in our here?
"Jobs"?
Every time I drive by there at lunchtime I see a parking lot full of Chinese and Hispanic workers, meaning
A. Low paid,
B. Willing to work around toxins.
C. Possibly illegals.
Why aren't more people discussing this?

Premarin is short for "Pregnant Mare Urine".
It's literally made from horse piss.

Don't be fooled by the Cancer Industry. The same companies that make the pesticides that cause cancer also make the chemotherapy drugs that "cure" the cancer.
The American Cancer Society's motto is
"Early Prevention is The Best Cure"....
Horseshit! Prevention is the best prevention.
Eat organic, stop smoking, exercise, make love, even if you have to find a lover to do so,
eliminate toxins in your environment and never do anything to your body without seeking a third opinion.

Forgot to add that Barabara Ehrenreich who wrote
Nickel and Dimed in America and other titles has just come out with a book about the "positive thinking" and Pink T-shirt industry that's main mission seems to be to keep women from getting mad at those that cause cancer.

Do you have a
Dow Chemical Company Womens Race For the Cure t-shirt in your closet?

In medical school, a professor asked us "what's God's gift to women?"
I wanted to say "RU-486" but this was a Jesuit school so I didn't.
He was referring to hormone therapy. I'm glad I wasn't paying attention that day.

Do a study on breast cancer incidents prior to hormone therapy drugs being introduced by the drug companies. That's how we'll get our answers by studying past generations of women, prior to the drug companies that are dispensing medication to kill us. They are the culprits!

As for the young women of today with no hormone therapy, envioronmental and type of food intake is my opinion.

Is this article talking about bioidentical progesterone-----or the synthetic progestin that is taken by so many women? There's a huge difference, and a lot of doctors use the terms interchangeably (and incorrectly).

people in Marin have health insurance, cancers get detected, in lower income and rural areas people dont go to the hospital as often

This was my Class of '69's 40th reunion year. More than forty classmates are dead. A few more women than men. Nearly all the women died of breast cancer. Most lived in Petaluma or somewhere in Sonoma County, or Marin. A couple, elsewhere. Across the years.(We all grew up in Marin, of course.) Make of the latter factors what you may, but the core fact is unhinging -- the number who died of breast cancer. Of course, this can't be just a random, natural phenomenon.

Sorry to go off-topic, but this does seem like a Made for Marin article. Most other places, there are statistics saying that, overall, a disproportionate number of black women die of breast cancer.

Still, there is the core fact. It all begs the question. Walks for a *cure* are are all well and good, and we cannot do without the work they support. But there must be a cause that can be prevented.

No kidding?....

Well, when women seek a false sense of youthfulness in drugs, what do you expect?

MarinMom wrote:

I don't buy this for one bit. Everyone one I know with BC, including myself, is under the age of 50 and pre-menopausal. There is something else going on in Marin and it isn't hormone therepy.

Faucet and bottled water?

John wrote:

people in Marin have health insurance, cancers get detected, in lower income and rural areas people dont go to the hospital as often

This makes the most sense to me.

Purity wrote:

Well, when women seek a false sense of youthfulness in drugs, what do you expect?

Too cynical of a response which is uncalled for for such a tragedy that befalls women. Try more compassion for the result of what most probably is either a pharmacutical or envioronmental issue.

John wrote:

people in Marin have health insurance, cancers get detected, in lower income and rural areas people dont go to the hospital as often

Are you kidding me? Been to a hospital emergency room lately? It's filled with "lower income" people and illegals who use our hospitals as their personal doctors office. Just recently an illegal racked up a 1.7Mil bill because he didn't want to spend the $50 at the Community Clinic for treatment of (what was at the time) a minor upper respiratory infection. 2 weeks later, he was in the ER. BTW he didn't speak any English.