With the advancements in the levels of awareness, patients are increasingly playing a decision-making role in their own course of treatment. Recent developments and research studies suggest that doctors must opt for all necessary precautions when providing relevant comparative risk information to their patients.

Providing all comparative risk information based on the average women’s risk for breast cancer can affect treatment decisions and could be potentially harmful if given to women without the necessary precautions and adopting sufficient care.

Assimilation with common hypothetical scenarios brings up the results, women who were told their risk for breast cancer was ‘below average’ were less likely to undergo beneficial treatments, while women who reported their risk to be above average were more inclined to undergo risky treatments. Surprisingly, both were having the same degree of individual risks.

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A recent study, by the World Health Organization (WHO), revealed the fact that working in night shifts may cause serious problems including an enhanced risk of cancer in humans. Women are at specific risk in such an environment of working in the night shifts.

The study findings bring out the fact that after a prolonged exposure to the night shifts women have higher risks of developing breast and colon cancer. Men are equally at risk with the night shift working conditions. Men have more probability to suffer from the prostate cancer.

Almost 15 to 20% of the working class population in the United States and the Europe is undergoing a night shift working schedule. Such night shifts working system is very much prevalent in some specific business sectors including healthcare, transportation, communication, leisure, and hospitality industries.

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White women in their pre-menopause phase of life have double the risk for breast cancer if they are smokers. A recent case-control study revealed that it is because of the ‘BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene-mutation’.

Results of the study and the investigation report have been published in the journal “Breast Cancer Research and Treatment”. This report established the fact that the women who were smoking for last five or more five pack-years have twice the risk as non-smokers to have breast cancer.

Researchers are of the view that if these findings are confirmed, it will also provide a solution for the ‘mutation carriers’ in order to reduce the risk for developing the breast cancer.

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