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Proof

Proof is proof 🤷‍♀️

This is a link to an NSFW post. Not my best pics, but they’ll do as proof :3
NSFW link

  • Miisha@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorOPEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I agree with you completely, but I’d just like to say that it’s generally rarer than in all women. The risks of this type of cancer in cis and trans women are comparable.
    Sure, with smaller lifelong estradiol exposure, the risk may not be exactly equal, but it’s up there. Having boobs increases risk of breast cancer, surprise.

    • stopforgettingit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Lifelong estradiol exposure at the level and ages trans women take it for HRT might actually increase trans women’s risk over the baseline of 12% for cis women. If we would take trans health care seriously we might be able to find out for sure.

      Few studies have examined the breast cancer risk in transgender women. The most robust evidence to date is from a Dutch study in 2019, which found that breast cancer was more common in trans women (average age was 31) who undergo hormone treatment than cis men, but less common than in cis women.

      But also this is the only study of its kind that has even been done and they found the exposure to hormones increase the risk during that exposure and the cancer characteristics of the breast cancer resembled a more female pattern. The more major conclusion for this is we cannot treat trans women’s breast cancer prevention the same way we treat cis women (average age was 31, for cis women this is ~61–62 years old), but we need to first take ANY trans healthcare seriously to follow up on this.

      EDIT also to all my friends who have breasts, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What better thread to hijack about this than a boobie thread. If can remember the game the Oregon trail, you should get a mammogram. If you have ever walked in to a Blockbuster, you should get a mammogram. If you can hear the teacher calling his name in your head in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you should get a mammogram. If you can’t get a mammogram due to your age, you should learn how to do a self check and do these once a month.

      • Miisha@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorOPEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I don’t really have anything of my own to add. The studies are there (thanks, @stopforgettingit@lemmy.world!) for anyone interested in reading up. I just wanted to say that every person with breasts should do regular self-checks. Breast cancer is no joke and it’s a real tragedy.
        Fuck, I should really learn how to do them…

        • stopforgettingit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          RIP to my right boob for sure.

          But yes, I agree you should learn how to do a self check and also do about once a month in the shower. About half of the women in my support group found their cancer from self exams.

          Its pretty quick less than a min for both, you raise one arm then starting at the nipple you will press fingers in to the breast. Then press the tissue in about 1 inch apart spacing and move in a circular direction around the nipple and increasing the circles outward to the armpit. Make sure you get all the way in to your armpit too.

          You are looking for anything that feels texturally different, it could be a divet or indent or it could be a lump or bump. In my case it was wide and flat and just a bit harder than the tissue around it and it was on the far right side of my right breast, almost under the armpit.