Smoking also Trigger Breast Cancer

Smoking also Trigger Breast Cancer - Smoking is even more dire for the health. Recent research says that the habit of tobacco smoke increases the risk of breast cancer, especially if the smoke began at a young age.

For years, experts continue to question whether the cigarettes are directly related to risk of breast cancer or if the link is because most smokers also drank alcohol. Drinking alcohol is first known to trigger breast cancer.

The results itself provide different results. In 2004, research surgeons in the United States concluded there was no causal relationship between smoking and breast cancer.

But in a recent study that analyzed more than 73,000 women, found a strong association between smoking and breast cancer.

"Relation not just between alcohol and breast cancer, but the fact that smoking as well," says Mia Gaudet, director of the genetic epidemiology of the American Cancer Society.

The start smoking habits also affect the severity of the risk. "Women who started smoking before their first child at a higher risk," says Gaudet.

The study was made by analyzing data from women who take a long-term cancer studies. For 14 years the health of the woman is monitored.

The incidence of invasive breast cancer is 24 percent higher in those who smoke, and 13 percent higher in women who had never smoked, compared with never-smokers.

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