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subspacepilot2 -> RE: Breasts and safety (8/27/2010 7:08:21 PM)
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DesFIP has it right. The question is a good one though.
I remember reading a medical journal from around 1880 noting that a tumor that is traumatized has a great risk of causing other tumors. That was 130 years ago!
The most common breast cancer DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ) almost never metastasizes to other areas of the body. A lot has to do with whether or not a tumor invades capillaries--if it does, and tiny bits break off, that bit can lodge someplace (lymph node, lungs, bone, liver, etc) and become a tumor in itself. DCIS does not invade capillaries.
Yet I know personally of a woman who enjoyed rough play and whose dominant did also, who developed DCIS which was in her case far more invasive and spreading (into the lymphatic system) than is usually expected. I believed that breast trauma (consensual and desired) was a factor in aggravating (causing the tumor to spread into her lymphatic system) her cancer. As DesFip stated trauma can cause tumors to spread and I think that is what happened here.
Perhaps this is a good reason for frequent mammograms, especially for women between the ages of 40-50 which is the age group where the most aggressive tumors initiate. Cancer initiating beyond age 50 is generally much slower to spread and less aggressive. I hypothesize that rough breast play between age 40 and 50 might be a bad idea, or at least perhaps the play should be confined to that which does not cause deep trauma.
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