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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The British study on bra wearing and breast pain</b>
In year 2000, two breast surgeons started a study including 100 women at two breast clinics (all of whom had breast pain) and found that over half of the premenopausal women with pain found relief when they quit wearing bras for three months. For some the pain relief was very dramatic, changing their lifes. When they resumed bra wearing for the last three months of the study, the pain returned. Besides the pain data, the doctors also showed video thermography footage that dramatically demonstrated the heat build-up from bra wearing, and they discussed the possible connections with cancer causation.
They also made a documentary film that was shown on nationwide television in Britain. The following is a press release from Channel 4 UK (England), for the documentary on the connection between bras and breast pain.
[...]
The two medical experts who divided the experiment between their clinics are:
ROBERT MANSEL - Professor of Surgery at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He has studied breast pain for 25 years.
SIMON CAWTHORN is a consultant surgeon at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He is a specialist in the area of breast treatment.
On average, for pre-menopausal women, they found that the number of totally pain-free days went up by 7% which is regarded as significant for a problem that is otherwise so hard to treat. They are confident that this research warrants further investigation into the links between bra wearing and breast pain and cysts.
Several other studies have shown a link between breast pain and breast cancer. For example, French researchers at the University of Paris Necker Hospital have found that women with monthly breast pain have double the risk of getting breast cancer. They ascertained that statistically, pain can be as significant a risk factor as a family history of cancer.
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.
Both Mansel and Cawthorne are clear that there is no medical benefit to be obtained from wearing a bra.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That was in 2000. Earlier in 1991:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18272...t=Abstract
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Breast size, handedness and breast cancer risk.</b>,Eur J Cancer. 1991;27(2):131-5.
[...]
Premenopausal women who do not wear bras had half the risk of breast cancer compared with bra users (P about 0.09), <b>possibly</b> because they are thinner and likely to have smaller breasts.
(About the use of 'possibly' - have they actually investigated the reason they're suggesting or are they merely reasoning theoretically here?)
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 obesity. These data suggest that bra cup size (and conceivably mammary gland size) may be a risk factor for breast cancer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.007b.com/bras_bare_facts.php
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The British study on bra wearing and breast pain</b>
In year 2000, two breast surgeons started a study including 100 women at two breast clinics (all of whom had breast pain) and found that over half of the premenopausal women with pain found relief when they quit wearing bras for three months. For some the pain relief was very dramatic, changing their lifes. When they resumed bra wearing for the last three months of the study, the pain returned. Besides the pain data, the doctors also showed video thermography footage that dramatically demonstrated the heat build-up from bra wearing, and they discussed the possible connections with cancer causation.
They also made a documentary film that was shown on nationwide television in Britain. The following is a press release from Channel 4 UK (England), for the documentary on the connection between bras and breast pain.
[...]
The two medical experts who divided the experiment between their clinics are:
ROBERT MANSEL - Professor of Surgery at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He has studied breast pain for 25 years.
SIMON CAWTHORN is a consultant surgeon at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He is a specialist in the area of breast treatment.
On average, for pre-menopausal women, they found that the number of totally pain-free days went up by 7% which is regarded as significant for a problem that is otherwise so hard to treat. They are confident that this research warrants further investigation into the links between bra wearing and breast pain and cysts.
Several other studies have shown a link between breast pain and breast cancer. For example, French researchers at the University of Paris Necker Hospital have found that women with monthly breast pain have double the risk of getting breast cancer. They ascertained that statistically, pain can be as significant a risk factor as a family history of cancer.
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.
Both Mansel and Cawthorne are clear that there is no medical benefit to be obtained from wearing a bra.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That was in 2000. Earlier in 1991:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18272...t=Abstract
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Breast size, handedness and breast cancer risk.</b>,Eur J Cancer. 1991;27(2):131-5.
[...]
Premenopausal women who do not wear bras had half the risk of breast cancer compared with bra users (P about 0.09), <b>possibly</b> because they are thinner and likely to have smaller breasts.
(About the use of 'possibly' - have they actually investigated the reason they're suggesting or are they merely reasoning theoretically here?)
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 obesity. These data suggest that bra cup size (and conceivably mammary gland size) may be a risk factor for breast cancer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->