Obesity brings you closer to breast cancer. 40% of breast cancer patients are obese: obesity can also lead to breast cancer. Foreign statistics show that obese people account for about 40% of breast cancer patients. Fat accumulation in obese people will stimulate the endocrine system and increase the content of estrogen or prolactin in the blood. For women who are particularly sensitive to these two hormones, it may be a carcinogenic factor.
Studies have shown that high fat intake will increase the production of steroids and hormones, such as estrogen and androgen, which are closely related to breast cancer, endometrial cancer and prostate cancer.
Taking breast cancer as an example, obesity and excessive fat intake will increase the adipose tissue and estrogen receptor of the breast, so the probability of inducing breast cancer will greatly increase. In addition, excessive fat intake will increase the secretion of bile acid in the intestine. Under the action of intestinal bacteria, cholic acid will form metabolites that catalyze tumor growth and accelerate the formation of colorectal cancer.
Endogenous carcinogens can also come from protein in the diet. These protein are digested into amino acids, which will also produce carcinogens and substances that catalyze tumor growth after being catalyzed by bacteria in the intestine.
Emotional excitability Most breast cancer patients belong to emotional excitability. When the body is in a state of endocrine disorder for a long time, the functions of various organs and systems in the body will be affected. Not only does immunity decline, but the hormone level in the body will also be abnormal, which will stimulate the breast area, leading to uncontrolled proliferation of breast epithelial cells, and the probability of breast cancer will be very high.
When women are in negative emotions, women are prone to stagnation of liver qi, which will lead to poor qi and blood in women's breasts and easily lead to various breast diseases, such as hyperplasia of mammary glands and breast cancer.
Long-term suffering from breast diseases If women suffer from some breast diseases for a long time, such as acute and chronic mastitis, breast hyperplasia, breast cysts and other diseases, it will also increase the chance of breast cancer.
If the disease is not treated in time, or the symptoms will recur after taking the medicine, it is also the uncontrolled growth of breast epithelial cells, and the chance of developing breast cancer will increase.
Bad living habits Another cause of breast cancer is related to wrong living habits. For example, if women smoke for a long time, carcinogens in cigarettes will enter the human body, affecting the functions of various organs and systems of women. Moreover, it will reduce immunity and affect ovarian function, thus causing abnormal hormone secretion in the body.
Long-term drinking will stimulate the level of estrogen, which is easy to cause some lesions in women's breasts. In addition, if women stay up too late in daily life, it will make endocrine and hormone levels abnormal, damage women's overall immune function, and the probability of breast cancer is very high.
With the change of economic level and lifestyle, the incidence of obesity and breast cancer in China is on the rise, and the relationship between them has attracted more and more attention. Obesity will affect the occurrence, recurrence and metastasis of breast cancer, leading to poor prognosis of breast cancer. This may be related to the increase of insulin, IGF- 1 and its receptors, adipokines and inflammatory mediators.
However, this relationship and its related mechanism need more research results to confirm. Understanding the internal relationship between obesity and breast cancer is helpful to formulate new strategies for preventing and treating breast cancer.
According to the report of Cancer Research UK and British Health Forum, it is predicted that by 2035, 72% of adults in the UK will be overweight or obese, which will lead to an additional increase of nearly 670,000 cancer patients and millions of diabetes and heart disease patients.
Although this report is aimed at the situation in Britain, it is enough to attract our attention. Obesity is closely related to breast cancer, and controlling weight gain has a certain effect on preventing female breast cancer. It is not a dream to control weight, eat scientifically and stay away from breast diseases.