BREAST CANCER PREVENTION:

1 OUT OF 8 WOMEN WILL SUFFER FROM BREAST CANCER DURING HER LIFETIME.

This risk is reduced if we follow a few simple life rules:

• Nutrition: as many vegetables and fruit as possible;
• Learn to read the labels on food products; if possible, eat organic food or, if organic products are too expensive, wash the fruits and vegetables as well as possible, in order to remove at least a part of the pesticides; eat small amounts of pork or even chicken
• Vitamin supplements, based on medical recommendation, such as vitamin C: 500 – 1,000 mg, vitamin E 200 – 400 IU or fish oil, mineral selenium 200 mcg
• Stop smoking
• Drink alcohol below the recommended limits: consumption of 7-14 units/week increases the risk of breast cancer by 25%
• Exercise: minimum 30 minutes/day
• Discipline and persistence are important, not intensity
• Keep your beauty and your supple figure: maintain a balanced body mass index
• Use contraception medication or hormonal substitutes cautiously and ONLY based on medical recommendation
• Avoid useless thorax irradiation and irradiation in general
• Make sure you get enough sleep (7-8 hours a night)
• Have your screening medical check-ups, when recommended by the doctor.

Casiopeea organizes prevention workshops on this subject, for interested groups.