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Siwsan

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11. I'm not sure, but her breast cancer is an 'estrogen reception' type of cancer
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 05:06 PM
Jun 2012

The really strange thing is, there is no history of breast cancer on either side of the family. Two female relatives (grandmother and aunt) ended up with uterine cancer after their doctors put them on HRT, far later in life than should ever have happened (my grandmother was in her 80's, my aunt in her 60's when their doctors put them on Premarin). The cancer my sister has was tested as having no genetic indicators. At least that's what they told her.

She was exposed to a really, really bad black mold situation where she works and more was discovered in the attic at her house. I can't help but wonder if that exposure compromised her immune system to the point where the earlier cancer (which they now think was never fully eradicated) found the opportunity to take off, again.

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