Obesity Fuels Cancer in Women
This is not good news – From BBC Health News:
About 6,000 middle-aged or older women in the UK develop cancer each year because they are obese or overweight, a Cancer Research UK-funded study says.
The study, which looked at 45,000 cases of cancer in 1m women over seven years, says this is about 5% of such cases.
It is published online by the British Medical Journal and blames excess fat for 50% of cases of womb cancer and a type of oesophageal cancer.
Last week an international study warned of the link between cancer and weight.
Cancers Linked to Obesity:
Womb
Oesophagus
Bowel
Kidney
Leukaemia
Breast
Multiple myeloma (bone marrow)
Pancreatic
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Ovarian
You can read the entire article HERE.
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Guess, the link between obesity and breast cancer is significantly higher in comparison to other cancers because fat has an oestrogenic effect, which stimulates the lining epithelium of the mammary glands. The more stimulated the gland the greater are the chances of spontaneous mutations happening which could result in cancer. By that metric, women with rather large breasts could also be at risk. Suddenly, breast augmentation doesn’t sound like a brilliant idea anymore. My prof. would insist you could cut your breast cancer risk in half simply by taking a brisk walk daily for 45 mins and cutting back on red meat, smoking, alcohol and spicy food. This after undergoing molecular testing for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation analysis if a first degree relative suffers early onset breast or ovarian cancer ( before age 45) so that you can begin annual screening by mammography alternating with an ultra-sound, a full 10 years ahead of the rest of the population starting at 30.
What’s useful to know is that you should not change your radiologist or the mammography machine as there can be wide variation in result interpretation with different machines and/or operators.And a final word of caution – ladies, don’t let’s apply deodorants under our armpits. Studies claim a higher incidence of cancers in the left upper quadrant of the breast due to such an application in mostly, right handed women. It is a truism – every little helps; baby steps can go a long way. Monthly self-examination of both the breasts with flat of the palm; taking care to avoid the time of monthly periods can enable the detection of small pea sized cancerous lumps. It is a step in the right direction that Q8 is slowly but surely awakening to the need of mass public education on breast cancer through TV and print ads, as well as through sharing space with commercial ads in cinemas and the distribution of flyers and brochures with the testing of perfumes and cosmetics in malls and shopping arcades across Kuwait. However, it is unfortunate that similar campaigns are not being directed at men for lung and prostate cancer as well as to raise the awareness of the rare breast cancer happening in men with a far worse prognosis.
wow.. that’s just scary. so many people are overweight everywhere i really wish they’d know more about these dangers >__<
Should we add names of local blogs which promote junk food to the list of risk factors in the causation of obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and cancer in this country ?
Every which way you look you find the blogging landscape of Q8 to be dotted with innumerable gluttony centric entries that makes it seem as if eating of fast food is the second most popular hobby of those residing in Kuwait, second only to longish afternoon siestas.
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Atonement – Guilty! Guilty! I am the worst for printing sugar-high, high-fat recipes for delicious desserts (which I also eat) and for avoiding sweat inducing activities.
That’s horrible. It is really important for us women to take better care of ourselves. After all we are the providers, what would men do if we all up and died just because we couldn’t get up and go see a doctor. Early detection is the key to prevention! I lost my father in 2004 to cancer, so now I am just trying to do anything I can to help raise cancer awareness.
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