Overweight middle-aged women who lose weight are less likely to get breast cancer
Overweight middle-aged women who lose weight are less likely to develop breast cancer, even if they regain some weight.
A new study by scientists at the American Cancer Society and Harvard found when women lose at least 1.5 stone, they are 26% less at risk of suffering from the deadly disease.
Overweight women in their 50s who lose weight are less likely to develop breast cancer
Around 180,000 women in their fifties took part in the study for a decade, their weight was regularly recorded.
Experts discovered itโs never to late to prevent breast cancer and that many lives could be saved if women lost a few pounds.
โThese findings may be a strong motivator for the two-thirds of American women who are overweight to lose some of that weight,โ says lead researcher Dr Lauren Teras.
โEven if you gain weight after age 50, it is not too late to lower your risk of breast cancer.
โOur results suggest even a modest amount of sustained weight loss is associated with lower breast cancer risk for women over 50.โ
Once a woman has gone through menopause, her oestrogen levels begin to drop. However, fat cells will still produce this hormone and that could cause tumours to grow.
The paper concluded: โThese results suggest that gaining weight, and then losing it, confers the same breast cancer risk as keeping a stable body weight.
โIn other words, it is not too late to lower your risk of breast cancer if you have gained weight after age 50.โ
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