T.J. Hills was a busy working mother of 3 young boys in 2009 when she was diagnosed with an aggressive Stage III breast cancer. Like over 80% of breast cancer patients, she was the first person in her extended family to be diagnosed. She later learned that while there was no family history of cancer there was extensive medical conditions resulting from less than perfect estrogen metabolism; conditions such as endometriosis, fibroid tumors, infertility and ovarian cysts.
She took a simple gene test and learned how to improve her estrogen health with easy steps including common nutritional supplements like fish oil and Vitamin C and ones less widely known like DIM.
TJ took many estrogen medications and substances before her breast cancer diagnosis and believes she would have made many different choices if she knew about her estrogen capabilities earlier.
Common everyday choices that women make can be better informed by taking an estrogen metabolism gene test.
Should I take the birth control pill? My daughter is 11 and is having painful periods. Should she take the birth control pill? Should I take hormone replacement therapy or bioidentical hormone therapy? Should I take fertility medications?
How many rounds of ovulation induction? I want to wait to have a baby, should I freeze my eggs now?
If I have breast cancer in my family, are birth control pills or fertility meds or hormone replacement therapy options safe for me? I already have estrogen-fueled breast cancer, is there anything I can do to improve my prognosis odds?
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