as you know the breast cancer in the 2nd most common killing disease in women. unfortunately most of these patients with breast cancer come to seek the medical advice at late stage which is very bad. so how to prevent breast cancer to minimize the complications as much as we can? and what are the risk factors of breast cancer?
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I've just been reading an interesting book called (from memory) Take Responsibility For Your Health and the author argues that breast cancer screening causes more problems than it fixes. Can I suggest that you have a look at Dr Marcola's website which is legit for health related information and then go and get some books from the library if you are really interested.
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Risk factors: *Mammograms (intended to screen for breast cancer, but actually increases the risk for it!!): "Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth," says Dr. Charles B. Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute." In addition, mammography provides false tumor reports between 5 and 15 percent of the time. False positive results cause women to be re-exposed to additional X rays and create an environment of further stress, even possibly leading to unneeded surgery." *HRT : The threat of breast and uterine cancer is dramatically increased with HRT *taking 'the pill' and other forms of synthetic hormones increases risk of breast cancer *Antiperspirants may also increase the risk of breast cancer (allthough not enough scientific evidence for that yet--but there have been studies done that link the two--http://www.teamsizzle.com/sisel-forum/viewtopic.php?t=642 ) * There are also disturbing parallels between wearing bras and the incidence of fibrocystic disease and breast cancer. Elizabeth Vaughan, M.D. Prevention: *Omega 3 fats prevent breast cancer *exercise, losing weight *living and eating healthy *Breastfeeding *not allowing yourself to be brainwashed and worried by the breast cancer fear mongering tactics For those who like to get checked and tested: Breast thermography is better than mammography
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I think family history should be a big consideration since that does greatly increase one's risk. Yearly mammograms are recommended for all women starting at around 35-40, but if you have one or more family members who have had breast cancer or ovarian cancer you should start sooner. Monthly self exams should really start at puberty if for no other reason than to just get to know what is normal for your body and because many young women develop cysts
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