Cancer Prevention (Or Why Me?)

I have a feeling I am bit cynical these days. This morning I found a post by Dana Farber ' s Insight blog on cancer prevention tips, which caught my cynical eye.I was 19 when I was first diagnosed with cancer. Okay, I admit to smoking some by then but I wasn ' t much of a drinker until I got to college (!!). I was pretty active. I was young. Any bad habits didn ' t have much time to turn into a cancer, or so I think. Then by my second diagnosis, 26 years later, I might have had a few more bad habits but I was pretty active and got check ups, wore sun screen and in good shape. This is my family history of cancer: one grandfather got prostate cancer, the other one got gall bladder cancer, and one of my mother ' s cousins had breast cancer in the 1970s and is fine. (Considering my mother had forty something cousins, that ' s not a bad record.) So what happened? Why me? Why was I the one to be diagnosed with cancer? Twice? As for all my other ailments, my mother has had a bad back for years and also has rheumatoid arthritis. No one else has anything like I have. My father, in his late 80 ' s, has been known to call me and ask questions about upcoming medical procedures because I have had way more than him. I ask again, why me? I am a bit cranky about this. Still. I mean why did I end up with this medical history? Do you see what I am saying? How did I end up with my medical history when I am surrounded by a family of healthy people? Its very frustrat...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: aggravation cancer diagnosis cancer prevention frustration Source Type: blogs