02-08-2008, 04:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->two breast surgeons started a study including 100 women at <b>two</b> breast clinics<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How come anyone can make such serious suggestions with such an small sample size and that too from a small geographical areas? There could be other factors involved which the authors of the study may have overlooked.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Besides the pain data, the doctors also showed video thermography footage that dramatically demonstrated the <b>heat build-up</b> from bra wearing, and they discussed the possible connections with cancer causation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well they seems to suggest that heat is one of the causes of cancer which IMHO is incorrect. If heat is really the cause of cancer then people living in tropics which have high temp than say in britain must also have an correspondingly high rate of cancer in the population, which is not the case.
Cancer is caused by a variety of factors like exposure to carcinogenic substances, type of food taken, stress and type of lifestyle the person leads.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is important to note that this study had a significant effect on pre-menopausal women with breast pain. Post-menopausal women did not benefit as much from not wearing a bra.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Interesting finding which nullify their previous assertion that bras are the possible reason for breast cancer. Their finding that 'Post-menopausal women did not benefit as much from not wearing a bra' clearly shows that hormonal imbalances may be the factor that may be causing cancer rather an wearing an inner garment.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Among bra users, larger cup size was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer (P about 0.026), although the association was found only among postmenopausal women and was accounted for, in part, by <b>obesity</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Obesity caused by an sedentary lifestyle is indeed identified as one the factors of found to be causing cancer.
Check the dates of the studies, one was conducted in the year 1991 and another in 2000. After so many years, up until the year 2008 they have not yet found an correlation between the wearing of a bra and an increase in breast cancer. If there was any serious danger associated with wearing bras there would have been health advisory by respective national medical association like in the case of banning smoking in public which puts the non-smoking persons in public places to the risk of cancer due to secondary inhalation of cigarette smoke.
If there is an large scale study conducted and any scientific proof is found of the correlation between wearing bras and breast cancer then i may change my opinion but until then i dont believe this so called 'scientific study'.
How come anyone can make such serious suggestions with such an small sample size and that too from a small geographical areas? There could be other factors involved which the authors of the study may have overlooked.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Besides the pain data, the doctors also showed video thermography footage that dramatically demonstrated the <b>heat build-up</b> from bra wearing, and they discussed the possible connections with cancer causation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well they seems to suggest that heat is one of the causes of cancer which IMHO is incorrect. If heat is really the cause of cancer then people living in tropics which have high temp than say in britain must also have an correspondingly high rate of cancer in the population, which is not the case.
Cancer is caused by a variety of factors like exposure to carcinogenic substances, type of food taken, stress and type of lifestyle the person leads.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is important to note that this study had a significant effect on pre-menopausal women with breast pain. Post-menopausal women did not benefit as much from not wearing a bra.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Interesting finding which nullify their previous assertion that bras are the possible reason for breast cancer. Their finding that 'Post-menopausal women did not benefit as much from not wearing a bra' clearly shows that hormonal imbalances may be the factor that may be causing cancer rather an wearing an inner garment.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Among bra users, larger cup size was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer (P about 0.026), although the association was found only among postmenopausal women and was accounted for, in part, by <b>obesity</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Obesity caused by an sedentary lifestyle is indeed identified as one the factors of found to be causing cancer.
Check the dates of the studies, one was conducted in the year 1991 and another in 2000. After so many years, up until the year 2008 they have not yet found an correlation between the wearing of a bra and an increase in breast cancer. If there was any serious danger associated with wearing bras there would have been health advisory by respective national medical association like in the case of banning smoking in public which puts the non-smoking persons in public places to the risk of cancer due to secondary inhalation of cigarette smoke.
If there is an large scale study conducted and any scientific proof is found of the correlation between wearing bras and breast cancer then i may change my opinion but until then i dont believe this so called 'scientific study'.