"More and more women are now opting for voluntary breast removal (bilateral prophylactic mastectomy) after testing positive for what is being called the breast cancer gene. This is obviously not a simple issue with a one size fits all conclusion. It’s also important to note that there is a huge piece being left out of the equation, a piece that could significantly affect outcomes.
Women who have a mutation in one of the known breast cancer genes, BRCA1, and a strong family history of the disease, can have up to an 80 percent risk of developing breast cancer during their lifetime. On the other hand, the gene mutation without a strong family history results in only a 10 percent chance of developing breast cancer. That’s an eightfold variation in outcome, depending on family history. It’s also worth noting that the odds of getting breast cancer if you have the mutated gene and no family history are actually just about the same as if you didn’t have the bad gene at all.
This brings us to the missing piece of the equation--family history. What doesfamily history actually mean? Most people assume it means genetics, but not necessarily. It also means that you and your family live much of your lives in the same environment, eating the same diet, and following similar lifestyles. For example, according to recent studies, if you grow up on a farm, you, your siblings, and your parents have a 200-400 percent increased risk of breast cancer. There are also numerous studies that equate high dairy consumption with increased rates of breast cancer, most likely associated with high levels of estrogens and growth hormones found in commercial dairy products. If that’s what your family served at the dinner table, that’s what you all ate together, and it’s also likely to be what you and your new family will be eating when you move out. Heavy metals such as cadmium may also play a role in increasing breast cancer rates. So, if you grew up in an environment high in cadmium, then you and your family would face the same increased risk.
You get the idea: often what people term family history is, in fact, nothing more than shared environmental and dietary history--and you can change that environment and history:
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Women who have a mutation in one of the known breast cancer genes, BRCA1, and a strong family history of the disease, can have up to an 80 percent risk of developing breast cancer during their lifetime. On the other hand, the gene mutation without a strong family history results in only a 10 percent chance of developing breast cancer. That’s an eightfold variation in outcome, depending on family history. It’s also worth noting that the odds of getting breast cancer if you have the mutated gene and no family history are actually just about the same as if you didn’t have the bad gene at all.
This brings us to the missing piece of the equation--family history. What doesfamily history actually mean? Most people assume it means genetics, but not necessarily. It also means that you and your family live much of your lives in the same environment, eating the same diet, and following similar lifestyles. For example, according to recent studies, if you grow up on a farm, you, your siblings, and your parents have a 200-400 percent increased risk of breast cancer. There are also numerous studies that equate high dairy consumption with increased rates of breast cancer, most likely associated with high levels of estrogens and growth hormones found in commercial dairy products. If that’s what your family served at the dinner table, that’s what you all ate together, and it’s also likely to be what you and your new family will be eating when you move out. Heavy metals such as cadmium may also play a role in increasing breast cancer rates. So, if you grew up in an environment high in cadmium, then you and your family would face the same increased risk.
You get the idea: often what people term family history is, in fact, nothing more than shared environmental and dietary history--and you can change that environment and history:
- Pesticides can be detoxified out of the body
- Estrogen dominance can be balanced out with natural progesterone cream
- Heavy metals can be chelated out of the body
Even with a bad gene and a family history, you might be able to lower your odds of getting breast cancer back to 10 percent or less. When faced with that number, prophylactic removal of breasts doesn’t sound like such a good idea. And again, it’s important to remember that surgical removal doesn’t get rid of the underlying cause of cancer, just one place that it might manifest. The bad gene is not the actual cause of the cancer--it merely makes you more susceptible. If it were the actual cause, then you wouldn’t have an 800 percent variation in the numbers of women who have the bad gene and get cancer. Something else is affecting that 800 percent variation. If you opt for this surgery, you may not get breast cancer, but you haven’t changed your odds of getting uterine cancer, liver cancer, lymph cancer, etc."
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