Progesterone and Breast Cancer

Women in United States have a breast cancer rate of approximately 12 % and the rate of premenopausal (before age 50) breast cancer has increased by 30 % in the last thirty years. Media coverage has increased public awareness and fear of breast cancer, even though more women die of heart disease.

One out of eight American women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Thirty to forty out of every 100, 000 women in the United States will die of breast cancer. The rate of breast cancer has increased by 1 per cent a year since 1940. This is bad news.

The good news is that several studies and protocols at leading medical institutions are proving that dietary changes can not only prevent breast cancer but may be able to shrink existing cancer.

We will discuss the types of foods you should avoid , the foods you should add to your diet , (Nutrition And Breast Cancer) and other lifestyle changes that can prevent breast cancer.

How do you know if you have an increased risk of breast cancer? There are several well documented risk factors for breast cancers.  If you have any of these risk factors you should try to incorporate as many prevention strategies as possible into your daily routine. The more things that you change the better the chance of prevention. (Estrogen and Breast Cancer)

Not only will the suggestions decrease your risk of breast cancer , it will also decrease your risk of heart disease, help you to lose fat and

Improve your overall health and sense of well being.

While mammograms and breast self-examination are important, they aid in screening not prevention. They are designed to find tumors at their early stages and increases your chance for cure. However, if you combine it with primary prevention,( diet and lifestyle changes) you decrease your chance of finding a breast lump or having a positive mammogram.