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Preventing Breast Cancer
Why do women get sick? Who is at risk? How often should you be examined? These and other questions of Woman’s Day are answered by a mammologist, senior researcher at the Federal Mammological Center of the Russian Ministry of Health of the Russian Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine, Candidate of Medical Sciences Sergei Prokopenko.
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Woman’s Day decided to take a closer look at this acute problem and asked the specialist the main questions about breast cancer.
Where do breast cancers come from?
The researchers concluded that the very way we live today increases the risk of getting cancer. American oncologists have made up such three modern causes of cancer. The first is a diet high in unsaturated fatty acids and carbohydrates. The second is bad ecology. The third is the wrong way of life.
Well, the fourth reason is urbanization, which leads to constant stress. According to statistics, cancer occurs in townspeople 3 times more often than in rural areas.
Who is at risk for breast cancer
At risk:
- having female relatives with breast cancer;
- those who have started benign breast diseases, especially some forms of mastopathy, fibroadenoma, cysts, etc .;
- those who have hormonal disorders and diseases of the gynecological organs;
- not giving birth, not breastfeeding, having many abortions;
- not having a regular sex life;
- with early onset or late ended menstruation;
- suffered chest injuries.
By the way, popular breast augmentation surgeries are not that safe. Any intervention, incision and trauma to the breast increases the risk of developing cancer by an average of 0,5%.
The critical age is after 40–45 years. But every year the cancer “gets younger”, and now a tumor may appear in a 25-year-old woman and even in a teenage girl. Therefore, it is important not to waste time and regularly go for examinations to a mammologist.