How to reduce your breast cancer risk
Interview
Natalia gamba investigates how your environment, including when you have children, may cause breast cancer...
Natalia: How long have we suspected that environmental factors are responsible for the rise of breast cancer?
AnaM: the incidence of breast cancer has continued to increase. So, the increase was not just due to the major rise in women getting regular mammograms. What has changed is modern life, and it turns out that our lifestyles and environmental exposures are dangerous for breast tissue. We don't get as much exercise as we did in the early twentieth century; we drink more alcohol, have children later or not at all, and are less likely to breast-feed. Our chemical exposures are greater: More women eat foods raised with pesticides and take pharmaceutical hormones for contraception and menopausal symptoms. Changing the environment in which you live can increase your risk.
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