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Left handed women & breast cancer

According to this article I just found on MSN Today, left handed women risk getting breast cancer by 40% more than right handed women. This has got something to do with hormones before you are born that cause both the left handedness and the breast cancer. The research is still at an early stage but I just thought I'd warn all you left handers out there. Check yourself regularly! (I should do the same but I'm not good at it..) :smile: Kind of relieved I'm right handed now.

link to article in Dutch
Reply 1
Oh dear.
oh phew! glad to be right handed..
Reply 3
emilymckay90
Oh dear.


Lol. Something more for me to worry about. :frown:
oh great
Reply 5
fan bloody tastic as if my life wasnt bad enough this week
Reply 6
:| excellent. keep the good news coming.
Reply 7
thank god im right handed:smile:
Reply 8
your a boy....yes i have to point that out as your so obviously stupid
Reply 9
trigger
your a boy....yes i have to point that out as your so obviously stupid


Actually, men can get breast cancer as well.
lol, how funny, I'm on this thread and up the top a see a little ad's by google banner saying 'lefthanded.com' :rolleyes:
Reply 11
Sorry to make you all feel bad. :wink: (Or in some cases, relieved!) Just posting what I learned today.

BTW the article is aimed at women, nothing was said about men so I won't go there. :smile:

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trigger
fan bloody tastic as if my life wasnt bad enough this week
:hugs:

Optimism! :smile: New year, new view on things!
hahahah dont read that article. thos dutch fks dont know ****, man when they talk u its like 2 baboons talking to each other
hahahah dont read that article. those dutch fks dont know ****, man when they talk u its like 2 baboons talking to each other
Reply 14
I read the article in Student BMJ december issue and it was on the bbc health website. Its nothing new but fromt he article in the student BMJ, its no as straight forward as the research point out, well that was the impression i got from the article, i am only a prospective medic so no expert. There were other factors in the study as it was conducted in 1985-1989, the intial data then after 15 years chased up all the women in the study but due to funding shortages they could only same 1500 women from the orginal study. But the poitn was there is an increased chance of breat cancer in PRE-menopausal women. After the menopause, the risk of cancer greatly increases. Additionally, the chemical in question is synthetic female sex hormone which causes developmental changes in the brain which may result in the spheres of the brain changing, left handedness. The study is also important for he orgins of handedness and development early on in the fetus.
Reply 15
hugatree
According to this article I just found on MSN Today, left handed women risk getting breast cancer by 40% more than right handed women. This has got something to do with hormones before you are born that cause both the left handedness and the breast cancer. The research is still at an early stage but I just thought I'd warn all you left handers out there. Check yourself regularly! (I should do the same but I'm not good at it..) :smile: Kind of relieved I'm right handed now.

link to article in Dutch


You'll have to trust me but you DO get the chance of getting the disease whichever hand you use to click on the mouse. Or shall I put it this way that it's estrogen that causes breast cancer instead of your hands. Left handedness might just be a by-product(highly doubt it though), which might in some way indicate the left-hander's chance of getting into the unfortunate few.

And to tell you the truth, my mum just had an operation to have a benign tumour removed.(thank God!) The doc told me it's all to do with estrogen and a good mood will definately do you good.

Besides, a healthy diet is also extremely important. Girls who eat loads of chocolate or drink loads of coffee are at real risk. So beware next time when wanting to melt another chocalate in your mouth ... :cool:

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ZigZag
Actually, men can get breast cancer as well.


Very true.
Hayley_2k4
lol, how funny, I'm on this thread and up the top a see a little ad's by google banner saying 'lefthanded.com' :rolleyes:


Haha, I got that too, made me laugh!
Reply 17
nike_inc
hahahah dont read that article. thos dutch fks dont know ****, man when they talk u its like 2 baboons talking to each other
Not that I want to encourage you in your insulting, but I don't like the way the Dutch speak Dutch either. Belgian Dutch (i.e. Flemish) sounds like French with German and English words thrown in, which is, imho, much nicer. :smile:

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sayed_samed
I read the article in Student BMJ december issue and it was on the bbc health website. Its nothing new but fromt he article in the student BMJ, its no as straight forward as the research point out, well that was the impression i got from the article, i am only a prospective medic so no expert. There were other factors in the study as it was conducted in 1985-1989, the intial data then after 15 years chased up all the women in the study but due to funding shortages they could only same 1500 women from the orginal study. But the poitn was there is an increased chance of breat cancer in PRE-menopausal women. After the menopause, the risk of cancer greatly increases. Additionally, the chemical in question is synthetic female sex hormone which causes developmental changes in the brain which may result in the spheres of the brain changing, left handedness. The study is also important for he orgins of handedness and development early on in the fetus.
Cool thanks. :smile: The article did say it was taken from there so I figured it'd be slower and less accurate.

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FoodBuff
You'll have to trust me but you DO get the chance of getting the disease whichever hand you use to click on the mouse.

Besides, a healthy diet is also extremely important. Girls who eat loads of chocolate or drink loads of coffee are at real risk. So beware next time when wanting to melt another chocalate in your mouth ... :cool:
Yes I know. :wink:

*lays off the chocolates and moves on to the huge pack of salty crackers*