Health
Breast Cancer Linked to Light Drinking in Women
Written by Fitryan GD
Monday, 28 November 2011
Are you a woman, and like to drink alcoholic beverages? Beware, breast cancer stalking you! A study found that women alcoholics whose families have a history of the disease, having a high risk of developing breast disorder more quickly than those who drinnk no alcohol.
This was revealed from research conducted by a team from Harvard Medical School who had studied about 7,000 women aged 9 to 15 from 1996 to 2007. Revealed 17% of them had a mother, aunt, or grandmother who had breast problems, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
Among heavy drinkers, who had started drinking alcohol since the age of 22 years, the percentage of developmental disorders in the breast increases. Research leader, Catherine Berkley said that many young women who start drinking alcohol should know the background of their family's health.
Outside of family history, alcohol is also known as one of the drinks that should be shunned people with cancer. About 90% of lumps in the breast are not cancerous, but it is a sign of dangerous illness, and alcohol is the main trigger.
Meanwhile, the results of the research program mentions the Nurses Health Study, although the small size women drink wine as much as 3-6 cups per week, she is more at risk for breast cancer compared with women who did not drink at all.
Women who drink 3-6 glasses of wine per week were asked to fill out questionnaires about past alcohol consumption linked to breast cancer. The review was conducted on the data 105 986 women during 28 years (1980-2008). The results are in the middle of the study period, 7690 cases diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
Details determined the average 333 cases of breast cancer per 100,000 women among those who drank 3-6 glasses of wine per week. Then, 281 cases per 100,000 women among those who drank no alcohol. Among women who drank more than 6 drinks per week, the stakes are even higher.
The increase in cancer risk, according to researchers, is associated with changes in estrogen hormone levels. But according to Dr. Wendy Chen of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, United States claimed to consume less than three glasses of wine per week will not increase the risk of cancer.
The investigators believe that alcohol raises the level of the female sex hormone, estrogen, which is believed to induce tumor growth. Even the other studies mentioned, a certain amount of wine in the heart healthy. "I do not think that the message brought home the women, should not drink wine anymore," said Chen, as quoted by LiveScience Tuesday (11/1).
