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The other board I (used to) post on has only had one death of a member that we know about, and that was from testicular cancer. But two of my personal close friends have got boob cancer diagnoses in the past few months. it's too many. One of them admits to not checking regularly. she wondered how and when to tell her kids what was going on, I said, for once LIE to them. tell them you were just doing your routine monthly check and you found an irregularity, so you're getting it checked out to be on the safe side (this is before it was confirmed).

it's not usually an overly fun thing to do -more fun if your partner helps, but also more likely to lead to something being missed if they do ... but hey, it's a shitload more fun than surgery and chemo. And death.