Aug 28 2009
Breast Cancer Website
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How to Find Out Your Breast Cancer Risk Factor and How to Lower Your Risk
Executive Summary about breast cancer website by Belinda Stinson
To mark breast cancer awareness month is the newly launched online breast cancer risk level calculator. The National Breast Cancer Centre has launched the breast cancer risk calculator, coordinating with Pink Ribbon Day, to arm women and men with information about the disease. NBCC director Helen Zorbas said the online calculator processed information including a person’s age, genetic history, height, weight, and alcohol intake. It then advises you of your risk level.
“Importantly the calculator also provides useful information about lifestyle changes women may wish to make to reduce their risk,” Dr Zorbas said.
“Unfortunately no one can guarantee that any one woman will never develop breast cancer, but it is important that women are aware of what can potentially put them at risk.”
A surprising number of women were not aware that life style choices like drinking alcohol and being overweight were known cancer risk factors as well as a higher rate of risk with age.
It is important to separate the fact from the fiction about cancer risk factors. Medical research is also finding that by reducing your risk factors for cancer you also can reduce risks for other major illnesses like heart disease so it has a much broader benefit.
The breast cancer risk calculator is on the NBCC website at www.nbcc.org.au
This new and useful free calculator to test your risk levels as well as providing information to lower your personal risk is available for all.
How to Find Out Your Breast Cancer Risk Factor and How to Lower Your Risk
To mark breast cancer awareness month is the newly launched online breast cancer risk level calculator. You can simply enter information about your life style and family health history (no names and strict privacy protection) and then get told what your personal risk of evaluation.
This free calculator is available for women and men all over the world and only takes moments to complete to find out your own personal risk factors and way to helpful information on how to your risk. The National Breast Cancer Centre has launched the breast cancer risk calculator, coordinating with Pink Ribbon Day, to arm women and men with information about the disease. NBCC director Helen Zorbas said the online calculator processed information including a person’s age, genetic history, height, weight, and alcohol intake. It then advises you of your risk level.
“Importantly the calculator also provides useful information about lifestyle changes women may wish to make to reduce their risk,” Dr Zorbas said.
“Unfortunately no one can guarantee that any one woman will never develop breast cancer, but it is important that women are aware of what can potentially put them at risk.”
The calculator is a direct educational response to the survey results the NBCC found in 2003 that there is a lot of confusion about the things that may increase a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer, known as risk factors. A surprising number of women were not aware that life style choices like drinking alcohol and being overweight were known cancer risk factors as well as a higher rate of risk with age.
It is important to separate the fact from the fiction about cancer risk factors. With an understanding of the things that may increase your chance of developing cancer, you can take positive steps to reduce your risk. Medical research is also finding that by reducing your risk factors for cancer you also can reduce risks for other major illnesses like heart disease so it has a much broader benefit.
The breast cancer risk calculator is on the NBCC website at www.nbcc.org.au
This site is full of research and information and is well worth the read. So empower yourself with the facts so you can improve your health’s resilience. This new and useful free calculator to test your risk levels as well as providing information to lower your personal risk is available for all.
7 Ways to Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risk Factors With the Free Online Calculator
By Belinda Stinson
Usually it is too hard to determine the specific causes of individual breast cancer in individual women and men but large studies can find trends and identify risk factors. So having certain risks factors in your lifestyle increases your chances of developing cancer and successfully beating cancer.
1. Free yourself of smoking and your wallet will be heavier, your lungs lighter and your conscious easier knowing you are taking away the greatest cancer risk factor.
2. Keep your weight to the healthy body mass index range for your height. Carrying extra weight makes the body work harder for less benefit and increases your breast cancer risk factors on a sliding scale.
3. Regular exercise really builds up your health resilience factors and gives your body a greater fighting chance to heal more quickly and fight the good fight with a healthy immune system.
4. Modify your drinking of alcohol to a maximum of two serves per day, less is better. This still fits in with the tradition of a single glass of red wine being good for the heart but lets you see the direct results of moderation while still getting to enjoy a good glass of wine or two.
5. Anti-oxidants fight the good fight and a diet high in antioxidants keeps your immune system strong and resilient.
6. Stress uses up your body’s reserves, depressing your immune system, using up anti oxidants, making you tired and susceptible to illness. By reducing your stress levels you reduce not only your breast cancer risk factors but many more as well.
So find ways to manage your stress levels such as exercise, improving emotional intelligence skills, meditation, or where possible changing the life style issues that are causing the stress.
7. Finding peace in our daily lives can be really hard sometimes but research is showing that just 10 minutes a day of quiet time can do wonders for our entire health. Mediation can be a great way of settling the internal to do list that rattle round inside to give space for calm and peace.
You can do a structured mediation, take time out to enjoy sitting still and watching the world go round, go to a yoga class; anything that gives you peace and slows things down for a time gives your internal systems, like your immune and nervous systems, a slower time to work in.
Online Calculator to Test Your Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Now there is a free online resource tool to test your lifestyle choices and find out your personal breast cancer risk rate at the National Breast Cancer Centre’s website at www.nbcc.org.au – an Australian health resource that is freely available to women and men all round the world.
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