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...Pregnancy and lactation may also change breast tissue by building antibodies that help prevent cells from becoming cancerous. The fewer pregnancies a woman has, the less this modification occurs. "[In India] what was protecting women in the past was that they had many children," says Dr. Vinod Raina, an oncologist in Delhi. Other researchers go even further, venturing to put a number on that claim. "Reproductive changes explain about 30% to 40% of breast-cancer threat," says Dr. Wei Zheng, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...
...fields to offices, the less moving we do. Research released in February by the University of Southern California showed that among a sample group of 110,599 people, women who engaged in strenuous activity five hours a week had, over the long term, a 20% lower risk of invasive breast cancer, particularly ER-negative tumors. Doctors aren't certain about the precise mechanism at work, but the leaner body mass an active woman is likely to have and the healthier diet she is likely to follow can't hurt...
...about them. That is often not remotely the case elsewhere. In early September, Dr. Chiun-Sheng Huang, an oncologist at Taipei's National Taiwan University Hospital, examined a woman in her late 60s who had come to him for the first time. He discovered a tumor in her left breast so large that it had broken through her skin. She claimed she had first noticed the mass 17 years ago. The diagnosis was almost certainly terminal. When Huang asked the woman why she'd waited so long, she replied, "Because it didn't hurt...
...situation is little better elsewhere. Nigerian breast-cancer survivor Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu says mothers in her country are reluctant to reveal that they have breast cancer, fearful that if they do, no one will want to marry their daughters. "Some women would rather go to church to pray for the lump to disappear," she says. Mukerjee, the breast-cancer survivor from Kolkata, tells the story of a patient whose very presence halted a family marital procession. "When the crowd saw her, they wouldn't go further," she says...
...changing. Non?governmental groups such as Komen for the Cure and the World Health Organization sponsor lectures, professional gatherings and promotional events to educate women and caregivers about the disease. Grass-roots initiatives are sprouting up in places that never dared mention the disease before. Dr. Mohamed Shaalan, a breast surgeon in Cairo, reports that in Egypt, religious leaders now speak out in favor of breast-cancer awareness and screening, making it clear to husbands that their wives must be examined regularly - by male doctors if need be. In Hungary, where every woman from 45 to 65 now gets...