Increasing Cancer Cases In Women: Causes, Symptoms, Remedies

There have reports of increasing cancer cases in women, but the soothing information is that there are also remedies, in fact cost effective antidotes to the disease.

This report overviews these information, with the mindset of alleviating those who may be affrighted by the news.

By World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, 14 million cases of cancer are diagnosed every year, yet, two-fifths of such cases are preventable.

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The keys according to reports, include diet, smoking habits and lifestyle. To a large extent the factors are within the reach of individuals. In other words, there are conditions, which though may not be easy to come by, but are still within the control of individuals.

For example, studies on cancer and its prevalence in women, have indicated that diet is likely to most disproportionately determine whether or not women may contract cancer in the coming years.

As per this, overweight people are considered more vulnerable, especially when it is understood that over half a million cancers worldwide can be directly linked to obesity and inactivity.

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It means there is wisdom in the deliberate practice of some women to keep busy. After all, it has been stated by physical health education experts that working out calories of consumed foods help people to control their weight.

In discussing Increasing Cancer Cases In Women: Causes, Symptoms, Remedies, certain points need consideration. These days in the streets it has become common to see people juggling early in the morning or late in the evening, not for fun, but in consideration of the health implications of overweight. Those who cannot jug outdoors have taken to indoors exercise regimens.

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In some cultures in Nigeria, one important yardstick for healthy living, is having weigh or being plump, to the extent that maidens have to enter the fattening room prior to going to join their suitors. The trend has since changed, in view of the overall health implications.

Aside health considerations, change in value system has since slim and trim become desirability, especially in ladies.  In fact, the study under reference affirms that although obesity could increase the risk of kidney and bowel cancer, some that only affect women are also strongly linked to obesity.

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It is also stated that there is evidence that prostate cancer can be more aggressive in overweight men than otherwise.

“This can partly explain why cancer rates are increasing faster in women. In particular, studies have shown that cancer of the breast and of the womb are more likely in women who have a high body mass index”.

Most breast and womb cancers produce a protein called the oestrogen receptor that causes cancer cells to uncontrollably divide when oestrogen is present in high amounts.

It is stated that though all adults have a certain amount of estrogen in their bodies but women who have been through the menopause have to watch it. Their possession of oestrogen is largely determined by how much fat they have in their bodies. Add to that the information that breast cancer is both more common and less readily treatable in overweight women.

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What then are the lifestyles practices to avoid?:

1. Alcohol: it has been established that breast cancer is also increased by alcohol – the more you drink, the more likely you are to get the disease.
2. Smoking is another major cause of preventable cancer, with lung cancer becoming the second most common cancer in both men and women. The point that lung cancer is far less in women has been justified by the fact that comparatively less women than men smoke.

• Eating healthy. Diet lifestyles have been mentioned as factors to consider when the concern in cancer. More efforts should be made to eat healthy; take the pains of discovering foods with tendencies to reducing contacting cancer. Someone said, God has given us natural foods and roots to ward off, or contain diseases that afflict humanity; all that is needed is a deliberate effort to research on this and integrating them in eating and other lifestyles.

“Increasing Cancer Cases In Women: Causes, Symptoms, Remedies”, as a write-up, cannot pretend to have cached it all; the opinions of others are welcome so that together, cancer can be kept at bay.