Great. I’ve had 4 miscarriages, albeit early ones, around 7 weeks. I thought studies showed they didn’t increase the risk of BC since they were a natural occurrence and not an abrupt change in hormone levels like abortions.
Apparently it’s the first pregnancy ending before coming to full term that causes the problems.
There are changes that begin in the breast tissue when a woman gets pregnant that are completed when she delivers at full term. When that process is interrupted, the changes are not brought to completion and that leaves the tissue susceptible to cancer growth.
If a woman has a first pregnancy come to full term, those changes are completed and subsequent interrupted pregnancies do not cause the damage that an interrupted first pregnancy does.
One thing that is VERY protective against breast cancer is breast feeding, the longer the better. That is not very widely publicized for some reason.
You’d think that with all the brouhaha about breast cancer and preventing it, they’d focus on that more. But I guess they don’t like to do or say anything that makes women who bottle fed feel bad about themselves.
You don’t have anything to worry about. In an abortion, the pregnancy is stopped suddenly, just as the breasts are responding to high levels of estrogen and progesterone. In a miscarriage there is a more gradual decrease in hormone levels (it usually begins before the actual miscarriage). Let me compare it to 2 cars going 100 miles an hour; the driver of the first car passes out and, naturally, the car wrecks; the driver of the second car feels sick and slows down, not passing out until the car is stopped or almost, so there’s no wreck or a fender bender at worst.
It’s true. The abruptness of the induced AB is what does. Had 4 spontaneous and if I had an increased risk of CA if know it. No reason for them to cover it up
I thought I'd read studies showing the same thing. It's a NATURAL hormone level change, not an abrupt, artificial one, like that caused by an abortion.