Posted on 05/17/2022 1:37:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Women with dense breast tissue and benign breast disease face an elevated risk of future breast cancer and could benefit from a tailored mammogram screening strategy, according to a large study.
Benign breast disease refers to non-cancerous breast lumps, cysts or nipple discharge. It is a common condition that can affect both women and men.
Research has shown that mammographic breast density and benign breast disease are strong risk factors for breast cancer. Less is known about the combined impact of the two risk factors.
The new study investigated the risk of breast cancer associated with the combination of mammographic density and benign breast disease in 3.9 million Korean women. Breast cancer screening with mammography is provided for all women in Korea age 40 years or older, providing the researchers with a vast database for analysis.
During an average follow-up of more than 10 years, more than 58,000 women developed breast cancer. Of the women who developed breast cancer, 10,729, or 18.4%, had benign breast disease.
"While these benign breast diseases are not cancerous or life-threatening, our results, together with evidence from previous findings, show that they might increase the risk of breast cancer," said author Boyoung Park, M.D., Ph.D.
Breast cancer risk was 3.2% in women with extremely dense breasts. This was significantly higher than the 1.36% risk in women with fatty breast tissue.
Together, the two risk factors raised the risk of breast cancer when compared with women with non-dense breasts and those without benign breast disease.
"With the current findings, we believe that women with dense breasts and the presence of benign breast disease would be potential targets for supplemental screening," said coauthor Soyeoun Kim, M.P.H.
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https://europepmc.org/article/MED/8221402
72% of women receiving molecular iodine had objective improvement in breast density.
Do note selenium should be sufficient or supplemented, if increasing iodine amounts.
Density runs in my family. My sister was told she had breast cancer, so she opted to have both removed. She didn’t have it. My great-grandmother had both breasts removed due to “cancer” back in the 20’s or 30’s. She lived to be almost 100. She probably didn’t have it either.
They told me that the thing that makes it dangerous is that it’s hard to find in a mammogram due to the density so a lot of times, if it is cancer, it’s more advanced when they do find it.
None of the women in my family have actually had breast cancer.
My wife always had very dense breasts, until the past two years.
We changed up her supplements with more iodine, selenium, and zinc.
My doctor told me that most lose the density with age. I’m already taking zinc but will look into the selenium and iodine.
What daily dosages for each supplement is recommended? Thanks.
Google “iodine sufficiency”
Violet Iodine is the official stuff:
My wife takes about a third of that amount of iodine sources, keeping it at 1,000 mcg or less a day, now, but she had been taking, for a couple months, a dose of Iodoral that equated to 1/4 a pill, which is effectively the amount in one of the Violet brand pills a day, along with selenium and zinc.
I will. I don’t want to do anything that might mess with my hypothyroidism and medication.
Thank you
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