Risk Factors - One in three breast cancer could be avoided

According to the Heidelberg study, in which several thousand women took part, above all, increasing the hormone replacement therapy and lack of exercise, the risk of disease. Sun 19.4 percent of breast cancer cases are due to post-menopausal hormone preparations, 12.8 percent to the lack of physical activity.

"Could bring in these two areas of behavioral change, could almost 30 percent of breast cancers can be prevented after menopause," said study author Karen Steindorf. Alcohol consumption and obesity, however, showed a smaller influence on breast cancer risk. 58 000 cases per year diagnosed in Germany each year about 58 000 women with breast cancer.


The scientists believe that one of the unavoidable risk factors for breast cancer, the increased incidence of breast cancer in the family, also an early first menstrual period and a late onset of menopause. These risk factors can be influenced not make together about 37 percent of all cases of malignant breast cancer after menopause.

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