Quote Originally Posted by uforgot View Post
I was 32 when my mom died of breast cancer. My brother, my dad and I took care of her during those final weeks. She was allowed to stay home through hospice, which was a godsend. Watch someone you love die of this disease and then let's see how you feel about the "risks" associated with mammograms. I've had yearly mammograms since I was 31 and I'm now 54.
I lost my sister in law at age 34 of breast Cancer. No history in her family,they said it was enviromental. I watched my brother and my 3 year nephew go through hell and back from her dying. I am with uforgot on this one. A close friend of mine's mom this past year had a emegency mastectomy both breast. and cancer didn't run in their family either. I guess now it does. I should point out her mamogram did not show the baseball size lump hiding behind her breast. I was when they were removing some of her lymph nodes that the surgeon saw it. She had leaking out of her one nipple which is why they were removing the lymph nodes. She had had cervical cancer some years back. Oh that's another pet peev of mine. Pap smears! My friends mom had had a hysterectomy and figured she didn't have to ever have another pap. And then she got the cancer. PLEASE get your yearly check ups!