Breast cancer
Karla and Andrea.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Danish women. Men can also be a carrier of the breast cancer gene, in that way giving the gene to their children, but men does not have breasts so the gene is not expressed. Breast cancer is a very serious form for cancer. In Denmark about one in nine women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. In Iceland it is about one in eight women.
The chance of survival of breast cancer depends on how early it is detected. The chance of survival has something to do with the degree of presence of the gene encoding the growth factor.
If you have the gene for breast cancer risk, you can increase the risk of developing breast cancer by:
· Hormone therapy after menopause.
· Birth-control pills, but only for women over 30 years old.
· Alcohol consumption, which increases breast cancer risk by 7-10% per daily unit of alcohol.
· Obesity, which form the female hormone oestrogen in the fatty tissue, and the more fatty tissue, the more oestrogen and in that way bigger risk of breast cancer.
Breast cancer was not influenced by smoking, immune weakness, stress and depression as several other cancers influenced by.
On the genealogical tree is breast cancer the dominant gene. In the first generation, the man carries the cancer gene. The man gives the cancer gene to his to girls and they have a high probability of getting cancer. In the second generation the mother has the cancer gene and gives it to her girls and perhaps to the boy, so he carries the cancer gene, in the third generation. In the third generation the man, from a healthy family, and the woman, from a sick family, get two children. The woman gives her healthy gene to the girls and in that way they do not get the breast cancer gene.
The chance of survival of breast cancer depends on how early it is detected. The chance of survival has something to do with the degree of presence of the gene encoding the growth factor.
If you have the gene for breast cancer risk, you can increase the risk of developing breast cancer by:
· Hormone therapy after menopause.
· Birth-control pills, but only for women over 30 years old.
· Alcohol consumption, which increases breast cancer risk by 7-10% per daily unit of alcohol.
· Obesity, which form the female hormone oestrogen in the fatty tissue, and the more fatty tissue, the more oestrogen and in that way bigger risk of breast cancer.
Breast cancer was not influenced by smoking, immune weakness, stress and depression as several other cancers influenced by.
On the genealogical tree is breast cancer the dominant gene. In the first generation, the man carries the cancer gene. The man gives the cancer gene to his to girls and they have a high probability of getting cancer. In the second generation the mother has the cancer gene and gives it to her girls and perhaps to the boy, so he carries the cancer gene, in the third generation. In the third generation the man, from a healthy family, and the woman, from a sick family, get two children. The woman gives her healthy gene to the girls and in that way they do not get the breast cancer gene.