My mother has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. It is not hereditary & she is healthy. She has in her DNA some predisposition to getting it based on certain environmental factors. I am assuming this is related to hormone replacement therapy drugs she took when she was going through menopause. Understandably so, there is a risk factor associated with breast cancer and these drugs that were studied and this conclusions still remains to be proven. My question is my choice to get on birth control, as it is one form of hormone replacement. Will this heighten my own risk to get breast cancer down the line? I am early 30s and healthy.
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Birth control seems to slightly raise the risk of breast cancer while you are taking it. When you stop taking it, the risk goes back to normal. It sounds like your mother didn't get breast cancer in her 30s, which means that you don't have a high risk of getting it now. Environmental factors that will prevent breast cancer: The more kids you have, the lower your risk. The earlier you have them, the lower your risk. The more you breastfeed them, the lower your risk. Birth control isn't really the same as hormone replacement. Birth control simulates pregnancy. HRT attempts to recreate normal (non-pregnant) hormone levels. Birth control usually has low levels of estrogen; HRT has high levels of estrogen.
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The link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer has been established. However, birth control does not increase the risk. The amount of hormones used in the pill was decreased in the 1970s and has remained quite low. The only real precaution you can take is to have annual mammograms when it is time. Most of the risk factors are out of our control. 75% of all breast cancers occur in postmenopausal women.
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You can find professional help at this site with corresponding articles. I wish you the very best. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/4/328
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Cancer rates are going down? Great, I'll cancel my mammogram right now
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