Damn. Sorry to hear that.

I have had two friends get it, and neither made it. Another died of it, but it metastasized from their lung (Yeah, I have known a hell of a lot of people with cancer. Most have survived).

If you have known 4 people with the same cancer, they call that a "cluster," in the vernacular, and it might not be a bad idea to see if you can figure out where it comes from.

Here on Long Island, we have numerous breast cancer clusters. I am pretty cynical that people know the cause, but don't want to deal with it.

I had a serious non-cancerous tumor, back in '96, but managed to learn to walk and chew gum again, after a couple of months.

The key is whether or not it's operable. Mine was, none of my other friends were operable.

> I am pretty cynical that people know the cause, but don't want to deal with it.

I looked up "long island breast cancer" and saw a long list of risk factors. Out of curiosity, did you have a specific one in mind?