Rumor: Poor quality bras, especially bras with steel supports, are cancer killers.
Truth: All aspects of bras, including cup size, old and new, and whether there is a steel support, have nothing to do with any kind of breast cancer.
In fact, it is not only breast cancer, bra is not the main culprit of common breast diseases, but in some cases, it will aggravate your symptoms, delay your recovery or make you uncomfortable.
The Enemy between Bra and Breast
1. Bra and Breast Cancer
The usual reasoning process of [bra carcinogenesis] is that bras, especially bras with steel supports, prevent lymph from flowing to a certain area under the armpit, where bacteria and other wastes in the chest are usually removed, thus breast cancer occurs.
This is actually a misunderstanding. When they see two situations happening at the same time, they think that one situation leads to the other.
It’s like having a fall at dinner today and blaming the meal. This is a time sequence and there is no internal causal connection.
Recently, foreigners from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle conducted a scientific investigation on this issue and published the meticulous research results in the official journal of the American Cancer Research Association (AACR), Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
The conclusion is that bras have nothing to do with the onset of any kind of breast cancer.
2. Bra and global hyperplasia
Lobular hyperplasia is not caused by what kind of bra to wear or how long to wear underwear, but by incomplete involution of breast glands caused by imbalance or fluctuation of hormone levels in the body, so there is no absolute causal relationship between the two.
Only when there is no distending pain in the breast, the patient is not aware of the existence of lobular hyperplasia.
We are aware of the existence of this disease when we feel obvious breast pain due to changes in hormone levels before menstruation, or a drop in pain threshold due to poor physical condition, or poor mood.
At this time, too tight underwear or wearing underwear for too long will increase the time and degree of breast compression and aggravate the pain of lobular hyperplasia. Therefore, we will blame underwear for the pain caused by lobular hyperplasia.
Therefore, if patients with lobular hyperplasia are experiencing the pain caused by it, it is recommended to choose soft and loose underwear slightly larger than usual to reduce wearing time and promote recovery.
But please remember, it is not the main culprit of lobular hyperplasia.
3. Bra and Fibrodenoma
Similarly, the cause of fibroadenoma has nothing to do with underwear.
However, for patients who have undergone fibroadenoma surgery, if the incision is just at the edge of underwear, please do not wear body shaping or underwear with steel wire internal support too much. The compression of these hard objects on fresh scars will affect the blood supply required for skin healing, which will easily cause scar hyperplasia and leave regrets.
In a word, we can’t trust underwear advertisements, [wear it and become a goddess], and don’t blame our own development on underwear. After all, she is only a supporting role.
Author: Zhang Zheng
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