A Danish study shows that Obese women have minors in survival after breast cancer
Obese women are almost 80% more likely to die for breast cancer compared to those with a normal body weight. These are the surprising results of a Danish study that will be presented in the next month of May, in Madrid, during theEuropean Congress On Obesity. The research examined more than 42,000 women who survived breast cancer.
The researchers, led by Dr. Sixten Harborg, oncologist of theAarhus University Hospitalhave hypothesized that the metabolic syndrome – from the combination of high blood pressure, blood sugar and excess of body fat – is responsible for a strong inflammation that makes the action of the immune system ineffective when it must combat cancer cells. The women under the study were analyzed by examining the number of recurrences And the survival percentages: the results were much worse in obese patients with a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, and the results proved to be the same in all three continents where the study was carried out, namely Europe, Asia and America. Some scholars took into consideration the hypothesis that too The estrogen hormone can encourage the growth of some breast cancers. .
Today, in Italy, the breast cancer It is the most frequent tumor in the female population: more than 55,000 diagnoses are recorded every year: year by year, however, an ever less mortality is observed, so much so that in our country the survival 5 years after diagnosis is almost 90%equal. It is one of the highest in Europe, also thanks to the effective screening programs that increasingly allow one early diagnosis.
Now the results of this study, published on Journal of Internal Medicine They also suggest new strategies to be able to win the battle against breast cancer: to be able to carry on a healthy lifestyle, maintain a weight in the norm by decreasing the calorie intake and the consumption of alcohol, and therefore keep the dangerous at bay metabolic syndromecould significantly increase survival chances.
