Re: Fear of risk factors for breast cancer
I think that it’s important to consider that when we say an ‘increased risk’ it doesn’t actually mean that you’re going to/certain to develop that issue.
An example, I’m on the combined birth control pill, which has an increased risk of blood clots particularly during the first year of taking it. Now the normal risk of developing a blood clot would be roughly 2 women out of 10,000 per year, women on my birth control have an increased risk of about 5-7 out of 10,000 a year. So even though there is an increased risk, it is still very low. I don’t know the exact numbers regarding breast cancer but it’s very likely that it follows the same suit of it still depending far more on your genetic make up than what risk factors we carry (the same with the pill). The same as people that drink and smoke heavily all their lives and never develop cancer, even though we say smoking causes cancer.
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