Hormone Replacement Therapy And Breast Cancer
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How can I take precautions for Breast Cancer?
My mother has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. It is not hereditary & she is healthy. She has in her DNA some predisposition to getting it based on certain environmental factors. I am assuming this is related to hormone replacement therapy drugs she took when she was going through menopause.
Understandably so, there is a risk factor associated with breast cancer and these drugs that were studied and this conclusions still remains to be proven.
My question is my choice to get on birth control, as it is one form of hormone replacement. Will this heighten my own risk to get breast cancer down the line? I am early 30s and healthy.
The link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer has been established. However, birth control does not increase the risk. The amount of hormones used in the pill was decreased in the 1970s and has remained quite low. The only real precaution you can take is to have annual mammograms when it is time. Most of the risk factors are out of our control. 75% of all breast cancers occur in postmenopausal women.
Study Hormone Replacement Therapy Increases Breast Cancer Risk – kdka.com
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