Difficulty in Determining if Estrogen, Progestogen or Both Cause Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers, Estrogen, Misinformation, Progesterone, Reproductive Hormones Aging, Bioidentical, Compounding, Continuous Regimen, Cyclic Regimen, Dense breasts, Diet, ERT, Family Histgory, FDA, Genetic Predisposition, HRT, Lifestyle, Medical History, Menstrual Life, Peri-Menopause, Periods, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pregnancy, Research Studies, Risk, Risk FactorsDo you have any idea how difficult it is to determine if estrogen, progestogen, or both cause breast cancer? This is something that warrants a lot of consideration because it’s at the root of some of the most confusion and fear in the world…
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tools
Breast Cancer, Cancers Atypia, Benign, Bilateral, BMI, BRCA, BRCAPRO, Breast Biopsy, Breast Disease, Claus Model, Dense breasts, Ethnicity, Family History, Gail Model, Genetic Mutation, Genetic Testing, Guidelines, Hereditary Cancer, Hyperplasia, IBIS Model, Insurance, Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, Malignant, Ovarian Cancer, Periods, Pregnancy, Race, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Sporadic Cancer, Statistics, Surgery, Tailoring, Tyrer-Cusick ModelHave you ever heard of a “breast cancer risk assessment tool”? Or perhaps you’ve heard of such things described as “breast cancer risk assessment models.” Well regardless of whether you have or haven’t heard of them, you need to…
Diet & Lifestyle as Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Abdominal Fat, Abnormal Cells, Aging, Alcohol, Breast Density, Clinical Breast Exam, Diet, Epigenetics, Family History, Genetic Mutation, Genetic Predisposition, Lifestyle, Mammogram, Meat, Menstrual Life, Misinformation, Obesity, Personal History, Pre-cancer, Risk, Risk Factors, Saturated Fats, Sedentary, Self Breast Exam, Sleep, Smoking, Statistics, WineDo you know the diet and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer? Do you know the specifics that make them risk factors? And what about how much they each increase your risk for breast cancer? You see, in order to make use of the list of risk…
Why Menstrual Cycles Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Breast Tenderness, Breastfeeding, Ductal, Endometrium, Estrogen, Lobular, Mammary Glands, Menstrual Life, Oxytocin, Periods, Pregnancy, Progesterone, Prolactin, Risk, Risk Factors, UterusSo far, I’ve taught you that menstrual cycles are what increase your risk of breast cancer. But have you ever wondered why that is? How can it be that merely having menstrual cycles increases your risk of breast cancer? What else is going…
Reproductive Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Breastfeeding, Menarche, Menstrual Life, Periods, Post-Menopause, Pregnancy, Puberty, Research Studies, Risk, Risk FactorsDid you know that your entire reproductive life affects your risk for Breast Cancer? When you started having periods and when you stopped having periods. When you first got pregnant and how many times you were pregnant. Even your breastfeeding…
Age as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Aging, Genetic Mutation, Risk, Risk Factors, StatisticsEverybody talks about the fact that your risk of breast cancer increases with age. But, what exactly do they mean by that? Or do they even know what they mean by that? It turns out that the statement “Your risk of breast cancer increases with…
Family History as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers BRCA, Family History, Genetic Mutation, Genetic Predisposition, Genetic Testing, Habits, Hereditary Cancer, Lifestyle, Misinformation, Risk, Risk Factors, Sporadic Cancer, StatisticsEverybody talks about their family history of breast cancer in terms of how it impacts their own risk for breast cancer. But few are accurate in what they say. There are very specific relatives who have an impact on your risk for breast cancer.…
Exposure to Intense Radiation as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Abnormal Cells, Aging, BRCA, Chromosomes, Diagnosis, Genetic Mutation, Hereditary Cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Mammograms, Radiation Exposure, Radiotherapy, Risk, Risk Factors, StatisticsWhat do you know about radiation exposure in terms of its effect on your risk of breast cancer? What kind of radiation poses a threat? How much radiation constitutes a risk? How long after radiation exposure do you have the increased risk for…
Personal History of Cancer as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Abnormal Cells, Alcohol, BRCA, Chemotherapy, CIS, DCIS, Diet, Fallopian Tubes, Genetic Mutation, Genetic Testing, Hereditary Cancer, Hormone Receptor, Invasive, LCIS, Lifestyle, Local Invasion, Mastectomy, Medical History, Misinformation, Obesity, Oophorectomy, Ovarian Cancer, Ovaries, Personal History, Pre-cancer, Primary Breast Cancer, Prognosis, Prophylaxis, Recurrent Breast Cancer, Risk, Risk Factors, Salpingectomy, Saturated Fats, Sedentary, Smoking, Statistics, SurgeryDo you know how having had a personal history of cancer affects your risk for breast cancer? Does any cancer in any organ count? Or does it pertain only to gynecologic cancers? And does it include both hereditary cancers and non-hereditary cancers,…
“Risk” of Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer, Cancers Aging, Education, Family History, HRT, Misinformation, Risk, Risk Factors, Statistics, Tailoring, WHI StudyI’m sure you’ve heard the word “risk.” But how much do you know about that word? How do you apply it when you hear about something increasing or decreasing your chance of getting breast cancer? It is so much more than just a simple definition.…
