TV on cancer for under 50s

Hi I didn't see the program but I think it's wrong to link cancer with food, weight, lifestyle etc. I have enough guilt for what I'm putting my family through. I have never been a drinker, moker, drug taker! Spent most of my adult life on a diet to maintain a healthy weight. Iv never been a gym person but have and still am very active.  I could many examples just recently tv personalities who have bc and don't fit those characteristics

Stress yes I can tick that box several times over through grief, work, finances day to day life and i consider myself a positive person but I have still had extreme lows. 

Perhaps environmental factors should be taken into account but also maybe this is the hand we are dealt and are simply unlucky.

This is miss information, oncologist would be the first to say they don't have all the answers. 

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I saw it and thought, being polite - what a crock of ship!

What about all the children, some young, others too young to make a choice about any of the so called risks.

I've known parents of toddlers going through this horrible HORRIBLE thing. I've known of terribly healthy, super fit people going through it too. 

On my last trip round this crud, I heard somethings that stuck. The club no one wants join or the lottery nobody wants to win (but it's more likely you will.)

But since last year, I like to think of it as, we're all members of the Royal club!

I am glad I am not the only one who feels strongly that its wrong to put the blame on us as we are going through enough without guilt too. I had to go to a speed awareness course and the guy said 'do you know the difference between you lot here and all the other drivers on the road?' we thought he was going to have a go at us but he didn't his answer was 'you were unlucky enough to get caught. Everyone speeds at some time even if they don't know it.' I think 'luck' or chance is all that can explain it. This thing of blaming lifestyle is a way f saying we have control over a thing that no one can control.

I haven’t seen the programme but it makes me mad !

My mum had breast cancer at 46, luckily she is now well and has been for 30yrs. She was, and still is, one of the healthiest people I know with a good diet & exercise. I have now been diagnosed MBC de novo, at 47, I don’t think this is coincidence  at all. Yes I enjoyed a glass of wine but was fairly active, although I did have a stressful job. The thing that annoys me is I asked numerous times over the years about early mammograms and was told no I didn’t need them, despite the family link. I was also started on HRT, again I asked if this was ok and was told yes. As my cancer is hormone receptive it clearly wasn’t ok !

I think it’s disgusting that some doctors put the blame on to us, and they should be screening people much sooner. I’ve also noticed so many people recently being dismissed with symptoms only to find out cancer is present and by then it’s too late. 

I agree

my mammogram was delayed over covid and when I went to see a dr with a variety of symptoms he sat under two layers of PPE and said go home and look after yourself.

My own GP a year later examined me straight away and got me a mammogram in 2 weeks. That was when I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.

who knows what might have happened if I had been properly looked at a year before