Smokers Women Affected by Breast Cancer Risk

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Smoking not only will trigger diseases related to respiratory tract. Recent studies show women smokers at greater risk of breast cancer, especially if they are already a smoker since a young age.

Although the risks tend to be small, but smokers women are at risk of 6 percent higher breast cancer compared with nonsmokers. Women who spend a pack of cigarettes every day over a period of 30 years the risk jumped to 28 percent.

Previous studies on the effect of smoking on breast cancer produce a balanced outcome. Some studies concluded that smoking increases the risk, but some will not find a link.

Tobacco smoke contains thousands of materials or substances, including chemicals, gas, and droplets of tar. However, smoking is known to reduce levels of estrogen, one of the triggers of breast cancer.

Those who had become smokers, at least before the first child, the risk of breast cancer are higher. Giving birth is known to protect women from breast cancer, suspected this because of the changes that occur in breast tissue. Breast cancer risk is greater in periods of hormonal transition, such as pre-menopausal and post menopausal period when there was a variety of changes in hormone function

In fact, post-menopausal women who smoke have a lower risk than nonsmokers to have breast cancer. This is because people who have menopause and smokers have lower estrogen levels.