Can lifestyle changes impact breast cancer risk?
https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/lifestyle-and-risk
Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/well/live/how-to-lower-breast-cancer-risk.html?mcubz=3&_r=0
A recent New York Times article shared how “adopting protective living habits” could help keep breast cancer “at bay”. While many of these lifestyle changes and strategies like not smoking, avoiding weight gain, reducing alcohol consumption, eating a heart-healthy diet, and increasing physical activity have been shown to reduce breast cancer risk, there are other risk factors that one cannot control such as having a BRCA or other mutation that significantly increases breast cancer risk. Importantly, no one strategy has been proven to totally eliminate breast cancer risk. However many of these approaches have overall health benefits. (9/21/2017)
Questions To Ask Your Health Care Provider
- What is my risk of breast cancer?
- Given my risk, what are some things I can do to lower that risk or prevent a recurrence?
- What can I do to help my children reduce their risk of breast cancer?
- I have smoked for a long time and I am having trouble quitting. What can I do?
- I have smoked for a long time—how will quitting now make a difference to my health?
Open Clinical Trials
The following studies focus on nutrition and cancer prevention.
Breast cancer
- NCT03448003: Comprehensive Lifestyle Change To Prevent Breast Cancer. This trial looks at how well lifestyle changes work to prevent breast cancer. Premenopausal women 18 years and older with intact breasts and ovaries are eligible.
Colorectal cancer
- NCT05396846: My Best GI Eating Study. This study tests three diets in people who are overweight and who have an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
- NCT04192071: Virtual Human Delivered Nutrition Module for Colorectal Cancer Prevention. This study develops and tests an interactive nutrition module for use with colorectal cancer screening to learn which messages and graphics promote understanding of cancer risk and promote screening.
Visit our Featured Research Page and Research Search and Enroll Tool to find additional studies enrolling people with or at high risk for cancer.
About FORCE
FORCE is a national nonprofit organization, established in 1999. Our mission is to improve the lives of individuals and families affected by adult hereditary cancers.