Which professions cause breast cancer

Women working in bars, factories, farms, and the casino, there is an increased risk of breast cancer due to exposure to a toxic mixture of chemicals. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the US and Canada.

They analyzed data on thousands of women with careers breast cancer And then compared the results with those of 1147 healthy women. It turned out that the work in bars, casinos, farms or factories increases the risk of breast cancer   due to contact with chemicals oncogenic. In some cases, this risk grew once to five times.

For the workers of bars, casinos and racetracks increased risk of becoming a victim breast cancer   It was associated with a secondary smoking (visitors to these institutions is usually a lot of smoke and active), as well as night shifts, which lead to hormonal imbalances as had previously been proved by scientists. On the production of women face a cocktail of harmful substances, and on farms are dealing with pesticides.

In general, the availability of work experience in more than 10 years in one of these places of work increases the risk of breast cancer by 42%, as scientists have found from the Universities of Stirling and Ontario. However, the researchers emphasize that they made their findings based on the analysis of a small amount of information. In addition, the validity of the final conclusions hamstrung by the fact that scientists have not been able to measure the exact levels of these pollutants in different areas of women's work.

The highest risk is observed in women working in factories for the assembly of plastic parts for automobiles and food packaging. Thus the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women of twice the average and up to the menopause - five times higher.

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