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Women With Moderate Drinking Habit May Up Breast Cancer Risk

The American Cancer Society said in an announcement that more than 60,000 instances of DCIS are analyzed consistently in the United States, yet this does not imply that a lady with DCIS has a bosom malignancy.

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Women diagnosed with DCIS before age 35 were 17 times more likely to die from breast cancer within 10 years, compared to women in the general U.S. population.

Narod, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., of the Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, and coauthors used the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) 18 registries database to study women diagnosed with DCIS from 1988 to 2011.

Even light to moderate drinking – up to one a day for women and up to two a day for men – may increase your risk of contracting cancer, especially if you are a smoker, says a new study.

New research has called a common (and often disfiguring) treatment for early stage breast cancer into question.

Their report, published in the journal JAMA Oncology, says radiation after surgery did not increase their chances of survival. The authors of the editorial note that high-risk cases – which also include lesions that are large or are molecularly similar to certain breast cancers with worse prognoses – account for about 20 percent of diagnoses. Light or moderate drinking was not linked to a major overall increase in cancer cases.

Women can try modifying their lifestyle – exercising, eating more healthy food and cutting back on alcoholic drinks, all of which can lower breast cancer risk, Attai said. In addition to breast cancer, doctors looked for trends relating to colorectum, liver, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus cancers.

News site North Jersey quoted a local breast surgeon as saying that the debate about whether or not to treat DCIS patients is tricky because doctors “don’t have enough information” to know whether each patient’s condition will get worse or stay the same.

For Esserman, who is the director of the University of California, San Francisco breast care centre, the findings support the notion that some women with DCIS may not need surgery at all.

But some women who died of breast cancer ended up with the disease throughout their body without ever having it recur in their breast – many, in fact, had no breast because they had had a mastectomy. A champion of health equity, WCH advocates for the health of all women from diverse cultures and backgrounds and ensures their needs are reflected in the care they receive.

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Dr. Jürgen Rehm, head of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health’s Social and Epidemiological Research, said that alcohol may be only one risk factor which in combination with other factors such as a family history of breast cancer may lead to cancer.

Even light drinking ups your risk of cancer: study