Sentences with phrase «effect on your breast cancer risk»

It is thought that these genes will have a modest effect on breast cancer risk.

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It is important to note that duration of breastfeeding, the longer a mother breastfeeds in her life (one or more babies and the collective number of months), significantly impacts her risk for breast cancer; the protective effect of lactation on breast cancer risk is cumulative.

In the second study, a team of Danish researchers wanted to test the effect of a change in alcohol intake on the risk of breast cancer and heart disease.

The results for breast cancer are in line with previous research, but the true effect of alcohol on risk of ischaemic heart disease remains uncertain, say the editorial authors.

Higher BMI also increased the overall risk of liver (19 % increase), colon (10 %), ovarian (9 %), and breast cancers (5 %), but the effects on these cancers varied by underlying BMI and by individual - level factors such as sex and menopausal status.

Some examples of the scholars» projects are: effects of estrogen on cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction, depression and the growth - hormone axis, substance abuse, stress and nicotine, cardiovascular risk in spinal cord injury, and pharmacogenomics and the treatment of breast cancer in elderly women.

The authors believe theirs is the first study to show that mouse mammary gland tissues are sensitive to a mixture of 23 commonly used UOG chemicals, with dose - specific effects on tissue morphology, cell proliferation and induction of intraductal hyperplasias, an overgrowth of cells considered a marker for future breast cancer risk.

In its review of abortion's potential long - term health effects, the committee examined the evidence on future childbearing and pregnancy, risk of breast cancer, and mental health effects.

To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects on absolute cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based on published estimates for the overall risks of breast and ovarian cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute risk estimates that would be required in a genetic counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, noting the beneficial effect that vitamin D has been observed to have on breast cancer risk, suggested that higher levelsâ $» 1,000 IUs of vitamin D a dayâ $» may be a convenient and cost - effective way to reduce that risk.

Surprise finding # 4: 4 % of women say weight has the «biggest effect» on breast cancer risk.

The LA article goes on: «Dr. Kent Holtorf, a physician and proponent of bioidentical hormones... The website for Holtorf's clinic says that women using bioidentical hormones «feel great» without suffering any of the side effects of «synthetic hormones,» said to include fatigue, depression and weight gain, along with the increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease.

This summer the Foundation drew the FDA's attention to a July 2005 health advisory issued by the Israeli Health Ministry which warned that soy infant formula should not be given to infants, that children should be fed soy foods no more than once per day to a maximum of three times per week and that adults should exercise caution because of increased risk of breast cancer and adverse effects on fertility.

This effect on obesity may help to reduce breast cancer risk as well as having implications for the treatment of colorectal cancer.»

The beneficial effects of estrogen on these discomforts are indisputable, but as women become more informed they see that the risks — especially of breast cancer — may be too great to justify its use.

The media is riveted by Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy to address her doctor's prediction that she had an 87 % risk of breast cancer due to defects in her BRCA1 and / or BRCA2 genes, yet I've seen no mention of epigenetics and its effects on cancer development in relation to this story, thus no mention of the power of diet or lifestyle in cutting one's breast cancer risk.

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The conclusion of the authors: «These findings suggest that oral micronized progesterone has a more favorable effect on risk biomarkers for postmenopausal breast cancer than medroxyprogesterone acetate.»

Dietary effects on breast - cancer risk in Singapore.