Preventing Breast Cancer in Early Stadium

There is no single cause of breast cancer – it results from a combination of our genes, the way we live our lives and our surrounding environment. Many things that affect risk of breast cancer cannot be changed, such as age. However, there are changes you can make to lifestyle to reduce your risk of breast cancer. Having particular risk factors doesn’t mean that will definitely get breast cancer and conversely, not having many risk factors doesn’t mean that you won’t. Risk factors simply increase or decrease chances of developing the disease. So, even if you have a risk factor and are diagnosed with breast cancer, there’s no way of proving that the risk factor actually caused it. Some factors can increase breast cancer risk, while others decrease it or have differing effects in different women or at different times of them:

1.  Increase in risk

a.    Established factors

Age, alcohol, being female, being taller, early puberty, genetics, high breast density, hormone replacement therapy, ionizing radiation, late menopause, other breast conditions–proliferative benign breast disease, the pill (contraception)

b.    Possible factors

Bigger sizes at birth, in vitro fertilization treatment, shift work – working at night, smoking, stress.

1. 2.    Decrease in risk

Being shorter, breast feeding, early menopause, late puberty and physical activity.

Early Detection is your best protection, and the biggest achievable piece of that reduction is in your choices of foods. The steps I consider most important in preventing breast cancer. These include: keep a high daily intake of a wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits; maintain normal body weight and stay physically active throughout life; choose the oils and fats you eat carefully; enjoy a low glycemic index diet by choosing whole grains instead of refined flours and sugars; avoid environmental toxins (including alcohol and charred meats); choose to breast feed your baby and supplement your healthy diet with antioxidants such as green tea.  Monthly breast self-exams are also an important strategy in preventing breast cancer, and it’s recommend to all women from the teen year’s onward, but not because this reduces risk of breast cancer. Self exams are important because they have the potential for discovering tumors at a smaller earlier stage at which treatment outcomes and survival can be better. Mammograms are routinely recommended for the same reason, and the best current evidence supports the use of regular screening mammograms for detection of early, potentially treatable, disease.

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