Thursday, 9 June 2011

Risk for breast cancer in Postmenopausal Women raise for smoking

A new survey on the basis of 80 000 postmenopausal women found that first-hand and second-hand smoking raises risk of breast cancer, the study was conducted by Dr. Juhua Luo from West Virginia University and Margolis of Dr. Karen from HealthPartners Research Foundation, and published in the British Medical Journal. Luo and Margolis, which analyzed data from 80 000 women aged between 50 and 79 years., data are from the women's health initiative observational study of 1993-98 and includes patients from 40 clinics around the United States. ten years after the data, 3,250 women develop cases of cancer of the breast invasive.


The results of the survey show that smokers are 16% greater risk of developing cancer of the breast in postmenopausal compared with women who never had smoked. former smokers have an average of 9% increased risk for cancer of the breast, but the risk is most unfavourable for women who smoked of their teen years, or for 50 years or even 20 years-longer after the woman stop smoking, her risk remains higher than average risk for the life of breast cancer.


Some of the women in this study and have never smoked, but was exposed to secondhand smoke. those which were set out in detail the passive smoking for 10 years during childhood, 20 years of adults at home, or ten years as an adult in the workplace is 32% excess risk of breast cancer so if you had a parentYou smoked when you were Kid or spouse or partner who smoked at home or colleagues who smoked around you for the job, they make you any Christian.


Dr. Karen Margolis thinks that we all would be healthy, if none of us smoked at every stage of life. "our findings highlight the need for interventions to prevent the formation of smoking, particularly at an early age and to promote smoking cessation of all ages. is the bottom line: not to smoke, avoid those that smoke and get help to stop smoking.less than average risk of breast cancer is only one benefit when you can get smoking, there are many more good things for the smoke.


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