A look at the causes behind breast cancer
The major causes of breast cancer are age and gender. As a woman gets older, her chances of getting breast cancer do increase. However, there are numerous other causes of breast cancer. Some of these are obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, hereditary, to name just a few. With all of these different things linked together, it is very difficult for women not to have to worry about cancer. However, there are some women that will never have cancer even though they are obese, smoke, consume alcohol and have the genetics for it. There are always other circumstances to be looked at.
As stated before, it was found that a woman that gained twenty two pounds actually increase the likelihood of her getting breast cancer. Obesity becomes a hindrance on the body and the less it has to deal with, the more likely it’ll be strong enough not to get cancer. However, with obesity comes a healthy diet. The lack of grease foods and fast food and all of this greatly increases the strength and health of the body. Although there is no direct connection between fat and breast cancer, it is safe to safe no matter what, that reducing one’s weight can greatly decrease their chances of getting breast cancer.
Another thing that has been known to cause breast cancer is the hormones of the body. When a woman tries to get pregnant, her progesterone increases as well as estrogen. These are natural amounts. However, if there is an imbalance in the amount of hormones in the body, it can begin to have an effect on the woman’s breasts. Since the size of one’s breasts is connected to estrogen; if there is an increase, then the speed at which the cells reproduce could technically speed up. If they speed up too fast, they can mutate and this can lead to cancers cells which become tumors.
The most important to understand about a cancer is that it is a mutation. When someone smokes, they are causing damage to the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in the actual cell. So, the genes, in an effect, are getting messed up. The same occurs with obesity and imbalanced hormones and alcohol. All of this interferes with the DNA in the cell and that causes the alteration in the cell. There’s a reason they say that smoking causes cancer. The smoke damages the cells and when they reproduce, they’re not reproducing as a full cell. What is being reproduced is a damaged cell. As time goes on, this damaged cell continues to replicate and then becomes a completely different, warped, mutated cancer cell. And they multiple far faster than normal cells and that’s why a tumor is able to grow. To prevent getting breast cancer, just live healthier. Eat healthier, don’t drink in excess, and don’t smoke. But understand one thing. No matter how hard you try, it’s never your fault if you get breast cancer.