Why do todays US women have high incidences of breast cancer?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at
1:04 am
abnjim5 asked:
My mother died of cancer. First, the cancer was found in the breast, then lymph nodes, and finally, the lungs. What causes breast cancer? It’s so common! My mother was a smoker.
My mother died of cancer. First, the cancer was found in the breast, then lymph nodes, and finally, the lungs. What causes breast cancer? It’s so common! My mother was a smoker.
Tagged with: Lungs • Lymph Nodes • Women Breast
Filed under: Breast Cancer
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I suspect that it’s a combination of things but I’ve read that bras can increase a chance that a woman will get breast cancer, that it impeded our lymph nodes and keeps toxins trapped in the breast area, plus I have read we don’t get enough iodine in our diet.
Plus, face it, we have so many pollutants in our cities and toxins in our food…
I’m sorry for your loss!
breastcancer.gov
I think the rise in incidence of breast cancer is no different to the rise in incidence of obesity, or diabetes, or ADHD, or autism, or any other illness/disease that has become more prevalent in the last generation.
Environment is undoubtedly a factor, coupled with the way we eat today, modern lifestyle is killing us, literally!
Like most cancers, ther are several components. First, you have to be gentically susceptible, thats your DNA. This causes the cells to start to behave improperly. If you are otherwise healthy they may stave it off for a while. If you smoke or do other damage to the body you tilt the scales, and the damage starts to show up sooner. Diet high in fatty foods can also cause this extra burden and damage. Then there’s the factor of time. If we all lived long enough sooner or later some type of cancer would get a foothold and start to take over.
More cancers are being diagnosed because we A) look for them B) live longer C) have ever increasing worse lifestyles.
ADDENDUM: Holy mother of crap, now I’ve heard it all. Bras Do NOT increase breast cancer. What are the toxins you are refering to. Name one, just one and I’ll concede.
Genetics… and high caffeine intake.
This is what my doc told me.
In estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancers, being overweight is a big problem, because not only is there estrogen secreted by the ovaries, but then fat cells make estrogen, so both of those sources “feed” the tumors. So all of the overweight women are increasing their chances of getting breast cancer, even without any family history.
New research indicats that even moderate alcohol consumption by women who are or may be genetically predisposed to breast cancer increase their chances of getting it.
Until recently, ductal carcinoma in situ was a relatively uncommon disease, representing only about 1% of all newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer.1 It was usually regarded as a single disease with a single treatment, namely, mastectomy. Most patients presenting with ductal carcinoma in situ had symptoms a palpable mass or discharge from the nipple. During the past decade, as mammography has become more widely used and technically better, the number of new cases has increased dramatically. Most patients now present with lesions that are not palpable and are clinically occult