After Breast Cancer, How Can You Reduce Risk of a Second Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer patients in the U.S. have a five-year survival rate of 90 percent.
That’s great news that should give hope to thousands of women who are diagnosed every year. But those women need to be aware that they can significantly improve their chances of survival with some key health choices.
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center recruited 365 women who had experienced breast cancer, followed by a second breast cancer diagnosis. Case histories of these women were compared to more than 700 women who had experienced only one breast cancer.
RESULTS:
* Obesity increases risk of a second breast cancer by 50 percent
* Drinking more than one alcoholic beverage each day increases risk by 90 percent
* Smoking increases risk by 120 percent
Source:
“Reducing the Risk for Second Breast Cancers” Ivanhoe Newswires, 9/9/09, ivanhoe.com
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Tony Isaacs
Jenny, that is some good information. However, those 5 year survival rates plummet when you consider the 60,000 women who are included that are diagnosed annually with a Stage 0 cancer, DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ) that once was not even considered as a cancer or included in the statitistics.
What is really appalling is all the deception that annually goes on in the current Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) where those who profit from cancer as well as cause it are major players in directing attention away from toxins and environmental causes, continue to promote mammograms and direct research towards the same tried and failed mainstream treatment methods that attempt to cut out, burn out or poison out the symtoms of cancer without addressing the root causes to keep it from returning.
For an eye-opening look at how BCAM originated and how it continues to be misused, see:
"Breast Cancer Deception Month – Hiding the Truth beneath a Sea of Pink"
http://www.tbyil.com/breast-ca...
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