Unfortunately, many women suffer from such a disease as breast cancer and many of us are looking for information on how to avoid it. However, if you ask many of the fairer sex, you can see that 98 percent of people simply exaggerate the danger of this disease. Now you will see what the doctors say about this - they dispelled many of the existing myths.
Myth number 1. Only women can get breast cancer, in the family of which this disease has already been noticed.
True. In fact, about 70% of women do not know where they got this disease and can not understand the cause. However, if everyone has a family member with breast cancer, then if a close relative (sister, mother, child) already had this disease, then the disease risk increases 2 times in you. And if the cancer of the chest 2 relatives and more, then the risk is much higher.
Myth number 2. If you wear a bra on "bones", you can cause breast cancer.
True. The fact that bras of such a plan squeeze the lymphatic system and with this toxins accumulate in the chest is not true, scientists have not proved it. Therefore, the tightness of your lyanikakogo attitude to cancer does not.
Myth number 3. Most of the nodules in the chest are cancerous.
True. 80% of the nodules that are in the female breast are the result of cysts, benign changes or other causes. However, if you notice any changes in the chest, then consult a doctor, because identifying the cancer at an early stage is much better for you.
Myth number 4. If the tumor is closed during surgery, the cancer will spread.
True. Surgical intervention does not cause breast cancer, and even more so can not spread it. The doctor can only determine during the operation that the cancer has spread more than before.
Myth number 5. If you insert implants into the breast, the risk of breast cancer will increase.
True. This is a complete nonsense. Just a simple mammogram can make mistakes when examining such women, you should use additional X-rays, so you can more fully examine the mammary glands.
Myth number 6. Each woman has a chance of 1: 8 to develop breast cancer.
True. The risk increases only with age. At the age of 30, a woman has a 1: 233 chance of developing cancer, but when she is 85, she will have a 1: 8 chance.
Myth number 7. The use of antiperspirants increases the risk of breast cancer.
True. No one has found a connection between parabens, which are contained in the antiperspirantium and breast. Scientists have not figured out where the parabens that originated in the tumors came from.
Myth number 8. Women with small breasts have less breast cancer.
True. Risks of breast and its size are completely unrelated. The only thing is that it's too difficult to examine a baby more than a baby.
Myth number 9. Rakrodi always appears in the form of nodules.
True. Yes, the nodule can point to breast cancer, but women should pay attention and other changes. This can be ripples of the chest or nipple, swelling, redness, retraction of the nipple, irritation of the skin of the breast, scaly, thickening of the skin of the pectoralis of the nipple.
Myth number 10. After a mastectomy, it is impossible to develop breast cancer.
True. There are cases when women really fall ill with breast cancer after a mastectomy, but after it the risk of the disease is reduced by 90%.
Myth number 11. Family history of the mother affects the risk of breast cancer more, the father's history.
True. The family history of the father is as important as the mother story. To find out what you have risks, you must first pay attention to the female half of the father's family, because women are more susceptible to it.
Myth number 12 . Because of the abuse of caffeine, you can get breast cancer.
True. Scientists have proved that caffeine and breast cancer are both related. In some studies, it has even been shown that caffeine, on the contrary, can reduce this risk.
Myth number 13 . If you have a big risk of getting breast cancer, then there's nothing you can do about it.
True. In fact, every woman can do a lot. To reduce the risk, it is desirable to reduce your weight, if you are obese, exercise, eliminate or reduce alcohol consumption, undergo mammograms and regular clinical tests, and it will be good if you give up cigarettes.
Myth number 14. If a woman has fibrocystic breast changes, then she is more likely to get sick.
True. Earlier, the doctors believed that in fact it was so, but this connection was never established.
Myth number 15. If you do mammography every year, then you are exposed to radiation and as a consequence, a greater risk of breast cancer.
True. Yes, radiation in mammography is used, but the risks of the disease from it are very small. With the help of mammography, you can find a tumor just before you start feeling it.
Myth number 16 . Needle biopsies can excite cancer cells and they will spread to other parts of the body.
True. There is no convincing proof of this assertion. Even if people previously feared this, then today studies have shown that patients who have had a biopsy suffer from cancer in the same way as ordinary people, but in no case will the risk increase.
Myth number 17. After heart disease, cancer is the second cause of death in women.
True. Yes, because of breast cancer many women die, but lung cancer, stroke and chronic lower respiratory tract diseases take more women's lives in a year.
Myth number 18. If your mammogram shows nothing, then you have nothing to worry about.
True. Even after looking at the fact that in detecting cancer, mammography is very important, it can not detect 10 to 20% of cases of breast cancer. That's why you need to pass more and clinical tests.
Myth number 19. Hair straighteners are the cause of breast cancer in brunettes.
True. Large studies have not proven that hair straighteners increase the risk of breast cancer.
Myth number 20. If you remove the chest, then you will have more chances of survival than if you apply radiation therapy.
True. Women survive almost the same as those who have made a mastectomy and those who have used radiotherapy, retaining their breasts. But it should be noted that in some cases radiation can not be used as a cure.
Myth number 21. Women who are obese, have the same risk of cancer, like everyone else.
True. In fact, obesity and overweight greatly increase the risk of cancer, especially for postmenopausal women.
Myth number 22 . If you treat infertility, then simultaneously increase the risk of the disease of the bacillus gland.
True. Because of the fact that breast cancer is associated with estrogen, infertility treatment has also become suspect. However, the study found that most likely, future moms do not have an increased risk of breast cancer. But it is worth pointing out that until the end of this question has not yet been clarified.
Myth number 23. If you live near power lines, then you may have a regrariferous gland.
True. Studies have found that there is no connection between the occurrence of breast cancer and electro-magnetic fields.
Myth number 24. If you have an abortion, then the risk of breast cancer increases.
True. Abortion is the offender of the hormonal cycle during pregnancy, and the cancer is directly connected with the hormones. But all studies have shown that there is no causal link here.
Myth number 25. Breast cancer can be avoided.
True. Unfortunately no. Of course, you can change the way of life (stop smoking and alcohol, start sports, reduce your weight), determine how much you are at risk (family history and other methods) and this will reduce the possibility of breast cancer. As stated earlier, 70% of women do not know why they became ill, and this suggests that the disease occurs by accidental sniffing and as yet unexplained factors.