Alternative Paths, Breast Cancer

It's always a pleasure to be here, in fact, I feel very honored to be here.

It's been a very profound convention. Do you agree? You know, we're learning a lot. But we also have solutions. And that's really what we we are looking for and that's what we have. So what I'd like to do in my present.

OK, what I'd like to do in the time that I have today is talk about prevention of breast cancer from a more global perspective.

And what I mean by that is understanding what is going on that is driving this increase of breast cancer.

Who's affected? Which will probably be a very different than what you think and believe and what we can do about the city. This is a huge problem. Huge. A huge problem that actually is occurring to women all over the world.

It's a phenomenon that has never happened before in the history of humanity.

So I just like to ask how many women in the audience today have had breast cancer who are 60 years or older, diagnosed when you were 60 or older.

You just put your hands up for a bit. How many women have had breast cancer and were diagnosed in their 40s or 50s? You just put your hands up.

And how many women in the room were diagnosed in their 20s and 30s with breast cancer?

You just put your hands up because, you know, two generations ago, breast cancer occurred primarily in women in their 60s, 70s and 80s.

This last generation, we've been seeing breast cancer occurring in women in their 50s and 60s, late 40s.

And now this generation, we are actually seeing women who are being diagnosed with breast cancer, who are in their thirties, in their 20s and still very rare.

But I'm afraid it's not going to be so rare in the near future, even in their teens. What is happening here? We have never seen this before. So so we're going to explore a bit of this story and what is going on.

And when we talk about prevention, when we when we mentioned prevention and in a traditional medical context, these are the responses that we're told. So the American Cancer Society says there are no practical ways to prevent breast cancer. Only early detection. That's like it just comes out of the blue and the fickle finger of fate points to you. And that's how you get it. Nothing can prevent it. Which is pretty scary and powerless position for women to be in. And we also have the National Cancer Institute. They agree breast cancer is simply not a preventable