Bras With Thin Straps Cause Headaches
Bras with thin straps can cause headaches and lead to serious nerve damage.
Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas say wearing thin bra straps too tightly is dangerous for women. If a strap is so tight that it digs into the shoulder, it puts downward pressure on the cervical nerve. The cervical nerve runs from the neck to the shoulder and is an important component of the nerve system. Damaging it can cause frequent headaches, neck pain or numbness. Over time, it can cause pain that radiates from the shoulder all the way down the arms and into the hands.
Tight bra straps are especially hazardous for full-busted women, but all women are susceptible. Swimsuits with spaghetti straps and shoulder-strap purses worn for several hours at a time are also a problem.
The solution is to find a good-fitting bra, say UT Southwestern physicians.
Shop for support bras with wide straps. This distributes the weight more evenly.
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Broccoli Component Kills Breast Cancer Cells
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists say they’ve found a substance that could help prevent and potentially treat breast cancer. It’s not a drug or a new radiation treatment but a natural component of broccoli and broccoli sprouts.
The researchers tested the broccoli compound, known as sulforaphane, in animal studies as well as in breast cancer cell cultures in the lab. Their findings, recently published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, showed that sulforaphane not only targeted and killed cancer stem cells, but it also prevented any new malignancies from growing.
“Sulforaphane has been studied previously for its effects on cancer, but this study shows that its benefit is in inhibiting the breast cancer stem cells. This new insight suggests the potential of sulforaphane or broccoli extract to prevent or treat cancer by targeting the critical cancer stem cells,” said study author Duxin Sun, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences.
The scientists tested sulforaphane on human breast cancer cell cultures in the lab. Once again, they found the numbers of cancer stem cells plummeted after exposure to the broccoli compound.
This research suggests a potential new treatment that could be combined with other compounds to target breast cancer stem cells.
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Breast Cancer and Weight Gain
Gaining weight after age 20, even if only a pound or two per year, can almost double the risk of developing breast cancer after menopause compared to women who keep their weight stable.
This finding, from a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study, reported on the equivalent of a 30-pound gain over the years for a five-foot, four-inch woman. This extra weight acted as a major risk factor for breast cancer, and was as significant as family history of the disease, the age at which a woman begins to menstruate (the earlier, the higher the risk), or whether or not she has had children and the age at which she gave birth, according to study co-author Regina Ziegler, Ph.D., an NCI epidemiologist.
The NCI research team, working with investigators from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, analyzed information from 72,007 postmenopausal women in NCI’s Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO) cohort to arrive at the conclusions.
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