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| ation. Even though it may decrease the risk of a local recurrence of cancer, it does not help to inhibit metastatic cancer. |
| Mammograms |
| Recent findings show that women receiving mammograms should be cautious of overexposure to radiation emitted by equipment that is not professionally and regularly monitored. Such equipment can deliver doses of radiation far above what are assumed today to be safe levels. 35 For women under age fifty, the benefit-to-risk ratio of mammograms is controversial.36 |
| Increased mammographic density is associated with a fourfold to sixfold risk factor for breast cancer.37,38 |
| Lack of Sunlight |
| There is an inverse epidemiologic correlation between sunlight availability and the risk of breast cancer in the United States, Canada, and the former USSR.39,40 Sunlight is a source of vitamin D, which may be the reason for its protective effects. |
| Lack of Exercise |
| Physical activity can reduce breast cancer risk, as demonstrated by many recent studies that concluded that 36 percent of breast cancer cases could be prevented by increasing physical activity.41,42 |
| Fibrocystic Breast Disease |
| The pooled estimate from all studies to date shows that the ratio for the association between atypical hyperplasia and breast cancer is 3:67.43 |
| Hypothyroidism |
| At least two-thirds of my breast cancer patients also have an underactive thyroid or an underactive endocrine system that is manifesting as hypothyroidism, frequently undetected.44,45 |
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