We’ve all heard that excess weight and weight gain, especially in a woman’s later years after her estrogen starts to decrease, are known, or at least heavily suspected factors in increasing a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, so now that there is new research which actually quantitatively correlates that story, or at least that weight gain in breast cancer patients increases risks of a cancer relapse, it is a reality that women with this history or with the disease currently have to take very seriously.

It was proven recently in studies that for every roughly ten to eleven pounds that a woman gains after she is diagnosed with breast cancer, her chances of survival go down, or let me put it another way, her chances of dying from the disease goes up another 14 percent, which is statistically very significant for women with breast cancer who are serious about beating the disease. 

Diet and exercise factors enter into the frey when it comes to chances of surviving breast cancer, and doctors now have new incentives and more solid evidence to share with their patients when they educate them on how important the diet and exercise factors are if they are to beat the disease successfully on healthy terms.

The study was commissioned by the now very famous Susan G Komen foundation, which was founded by a great woman who’s sister succumbed to the disease several years ago.  The foundation puts on events such as marathons that donate all proceeds to the further study of breast cancer, breast cancer prevention research, and new drugs and preventive measures to treat the disease. 

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