How does sleeping in a bra cause breast cancer? | Breast Cancer …
How does sleeping in a bra cause breast cancer?
is there any websites to explain HOW it cause breast cancer?
Answer by Hannah
No it does not. Sleeping in a bra is a personal choice of comfort and sleeping with a bra on or off does not change your body?s risk of breast cancer.
Answer by Bailey
Sleeping with a bra isn?t bad. Its just if you like to. I feel its more comfortable to sleep without one. Don?t worry about getting breast cancer.
Answer by siobhan_23
There was article published by some Harvard researchers in the European Journal of Cancer in 1991 that indicated that there could be a link between bra-wearing and an increase in the incidence of breast cancer. Braless women were shown to have half the rate of cancer of women who wore bras. That being said, no more studies have been done to either confirm or refute the findings of the original study.
It is theorized that bras, especially ones that are overly tight and/or have underwire, impede circulation and the flow of lymph and thereby prevent the lymphatic system from functioning efficiently to remove waste, toxins, cell debris, and potentially cancerous cells from the breast tissue and increasing the risk of cancer.
http://www.ameliamitchell.com/tightbrasyndrome.pdf
I personally do sleep with a bra on, I just don?t wear ones that are overly snug and I definitely do not sleep in a bra with underwire. I also make sure that I wear properly-fitted bras at all times, mostly because they look and feel better than ones that are too snug. I don?t think anybody would or should go braless on the basis of one study, but not wearing bras that are too tight and not wearing underwire to bed don?t seem unreasonable concessions to me, especially if there is a possibility it could reduce the incidence of cancer.
*edit: I just wanted to clarify: wearing a bra does not cause cancer, but there is a correlation between wearing a bra and an increased incidence of breast cancer. The study never managed to explain whether this is explained solely by bra-wearing or if there are other factors that lead to the increased incidence that also correlate to an increase in bra wearing. For example, obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer and also correlates to larger breast size in general and larger breast size would tend to correlate to increased rate of bra-wearing.
Cheers.
Answer by april
There aren?t any because it DOESN?T cause cancer of any kind, geez.
Well that ameliamitchell site noted is by a therapeutic massage and lymphatic massage therapist who wants to give your breasts a nice lymphatic massage, lol.
Answer by lo_mcg
No, there are no websites which explain how sleeping in a bra causes breast cancer, because IT DOESN?T.
Cancer, including breast cancer, happens when normal cells change so that they grow in an uncontrolled way. This uncontrolled growth causes a tumour to form. Your underwear can?t trigger this process, and has no effect on it whether you?re asleep or awake, no matter how tight it is or how long you wear it for, or whether it?s wired or af the other rumours that go round about bras and cancer..
Check any reputable breast cancer charity or information site. You won?t find ?wearing a bra? listed as a risk factor on any of them.
Here?s what the American Cancer Society says about this myth:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_6_1x_Underwire_Bras.asp?sitearea=MED
In fact that page is very useful for checking out any rumours you hear or emails you receive about the causes of cancer:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/MED_6_1_Rumors.asp
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