Latinas are more likely to be diagnosed with cervical
cancer than women of any other racial or ethnic group.
In general, Asian women have a lower risk of breast
cancer than women in Western nations.
Women who ate soy - containing foods in childhood may have a lower risk of breast
cancer than women who did not, according to a new study.
A metanalysis of thirteen studies that was published in Carcinogenesis July 2006 demonstrated that women who drink green tea have a 22 % lower risk of developing breast
cancer than women who do not drink green tea (4).
Researchers found «that women who ate beans or lentils at least twice a week were 24 % less likely to develop breast
cancer than women who ate those foods less than once a month.»
Women who use low - dose oral contraceptive pills have a two-fold increased risk of a fatal heart attack compared to non - users.9 Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke have a 12-fold increase in fatal heart attacks and a 3.1-fold increase in fatal brain hemorrhage.10 Women who use the Pill after the age of 45 have a 144 percent greater risk of developing breast
cancer than women who have never used it.11
«Women in the highest category of adherence to this pattern had a 44 percent lower risk of breast
cancer than women in the lowest category of adherence,» Pollan said.
So says one study that showed women who gained 20 to 30 pounds after age 18 had a higher risk of postmenopausal breast
cancer than women who gained no more than five pounds.
White males are more likely to develop bladder
cancer than women and individuals of other races.
Women with what's called the BRCA mutation have a much higher risk of breast
cancer than women without it, according to the National Cancer Institute.
They then analysed the results of a further five studies and found that women with cosmetic breast implants had a 38 % greater risk of death from breast
cancer than women without implants.
A long - term study shows that women who underwent in vitro fertilization are not significantly more likely to develop breast
cancer than women in the general public or women who opted for other fertility treatments.
A 1995 Swedish study found that women born to mothers age 45 or older had a slightly higher chance of developing breast
cancer than women born to younger mothers.
Qin said that among all African - American women in the study, those with the highest adherence to an AHEI - 2010 diet were 34 percent less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian
cancer than women with the lowest AHEI - 2010 adherence.
Among postmenopausal women, the women with the highest quartile of HEI - 2010 scores were 43 percent less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and the women with the highest quartile AHEI - 2010 scores were 51 percent less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian
cancer than the women in the lowest quartile.
Using data on 114,000 British women, they calculated that women who take HRT for five years have a 2.74 times higher risk of developing breast
cancer than women who never take it (British Journal of Cancer, doi.org / Q).
«Overall, in the whole group of women we studied, women who had breastfed were 25 % less likely to develop premenopausal breast
cancer than women who had never breastfed,» says Stuebe, who conducted the research while at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
For both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer, women who were breastfed as children, even if only for a short time, had a 25 % lower risk of developing breast
cancer than women who were bottle - fed as infants.
Not exact matches
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial
women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian
cancer - care company with annual revenue of more
than $ 1.5 billion.
Non-Hispanic black (NHB)
women «continued to have higher breast
cancer death rates
than [non-Hispanic white]
women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB
women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»
They suggest most
women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm
than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for
cancer).
Worldwide,
women ages fifteen to forty - four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence
than from
cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.
Right now,
women age 15 - 44 are more likely to be maimed or to die from male violence
than from
cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.
Sarah Degner Riveros reflects on Angelina Jolie and the risk of breast
cancer:
Women of less means
than Jolie are collectively throwing up our hands.
Breast
cancer alone was discovered in more
than 100,000
women.
Recognizing this, in October 2011 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidelines recommending that
women be tested for cervical
cancer with Pap tests (not HPV tests) every three years rather
than annually because more frequent testing leads to overtreatment of low - grade changes that would in all likelihood not turn out to be cancerous.
Women are 75 times more likely to die of heart disease
than of cervical
cancer.
Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more
than 10 million meals to men,
women and children who are debilitated by disease and struggling with life - threatening illnesses such as
cancer, heart disease, renal failure and HIV / AIDS.
Let me use an example from public health: white
woman have a higher rate of developing breast
cancer over black
woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer white
woman die from breast
cancer than black
woman.
Some, mainly men, rather
than women, are too scared to see a doctor if they suspect they have a serious disease, even
cancer.
Women who are diagnosed with
cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to find themselves separated or divorced shortly after their diagnosis
than if they were a man, according to a study.
Women who are diagnosed with
cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to find themselves separated or divorced shortly after their diagnosis
than if they were a man, according to the study.
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Factors other
than medical history and risk may influence
women with
cancer in one breast to have both breasts removed even if it doesn't improve their odds of survival, suggests a new study.
For
women who have a family history of breast
cancer, mammogram screening usually begins 10 years earlier
than family member's diagnosis
Keep in mind breast
cancer is rare among
women younger
than 35.
Smoking is also the leading cause — in fact, it's practically the only cause — of lung
cancer, which kills more American
women every year
than any other
cancer, including breast
cancer.
my mother passed away dec. 8, 2008 from pancreatic
cancer... shortly after giving birth to wayana i moved back to be with my mother & nurse her through her next birth... 2008 - no doubt a year of infinity for me - it is all birth, death, rebirth, transitions & allowances... i get it & i owe it all to the vbac - nothing else in this experience could give me the knowledge, strength or grace
than having this experience... natural birth is the only experience a female can have that can make her a
woman... natural birth of anything!
Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where
women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical
cancer may be less
than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.
It could mean that more
than 10,000 Canadian
women each year could be spared the physical and mental trauma of dealing with
cancer and going through harsh treatments
It is estimated that the cumulative incidence of breast
cancer in developed countries would be reduced by more
than half, from 6.3 to 2.7 per 100
women by age 70, if
women had the average number of births and lifetime duration of breastfeeding that had been prevalent in developing countries until recently.
We used National
Cancer Institute data on the direct costs of invasive breast cancer, which ranged from $ 23,863 for year of diagnosis in women aged 65 years or older to $ 97,490 for the final year of life in women younger than 65 years40 (see Appendix 3, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/
Cancer Institute data on the direct costs of invasive breast
cancer, which ranged from $ 23,863 for year of diagnosis in women aged 65 years or older to $ 97,490 for the final year of life in women younger than 65 years40 (see Appendix 3, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/
cancer, which ranged from $ 23,863 for year of diagnosis in
women aged 65 years or older to $ 97,490 for the final year of life in
women younger
than 65 years40 (see Appendix 3, available online at http://links.lww.com/AOG/A400).
Researchers also don't know if these
women are more likely to die of
cancer than others.
In another meta - study (compiling data from 47 smaller studies) published in 2002, more
than 50,000
women with breast
cancer and nearly 97,000
women without the disease from 30 countries were studied.
That means, for
women with a family history of breast
cancer, breastfeeding can reduce your odds of developing pre-menopausal breast
cancer by more
than half!
The study indicated that even a small period of breastfeeding reduces the risk of these stubborn tumors, which are more common in younger
women and generally have a poorer prognosis
than other subtypes of breast
cancer.
Many
women who develop breast
cancer have no known risk factors other
than simply being
women.
According to Leena Hilakivi - Clarke, professor of oncology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, some
women who gained more
than 33 pounds during pregnancy had a significantly higher risk of breast
cancer than mothers who kept their weight gain between 25 and 32 pounds.
Rather
than posting what color your bra is or where you «like it» why not post something informative like this study which shows that breastfeeding for at least 2 years lowers the typical
woman's breast
cancer risk by 50 %?
Women who breastfeed for more
than a year total, between all of her children, have a 28 % lower risk of breast
cancer than those who do not.
The breasts of a
woman who has gone through breast
cancer are much different
than those who haven't had to.