Have you been tested for the cancer gene?

[badger]

my friend, who just turned 60, does have the gene. She had a hysterectomy about 5 years ago, and I believe she goes for a mammogram quite frequently.

As for preventative measures, I unfortunately have a pretty pessimistic attitude.

I truly doubt that many of my generation will be seeing the century mark. Despite our best efforts to live a healthy lifestyle, we can't help that we're surrounded in chemical pollution. It's in our water, our soil, and the air we breathe. Plastics are doing so much damage, I don't think we've seen the full impact of it on ourselves and the environment. Did you know that the receipts we get from stores are loaded with unhealthy amounts of BPA? And just because we buy "organic", doesn't mean that they haven't been sprayed or treated.

The waters are loaded with the synthetic hormones that we pee out from birth control pills - that's affecting the fish. Male fish are turning female, some are born with eggs!? I'll stop myself before I go really off on a tangent.

Sorry for the doom and gloom, I'm PMSing