Women who have always felt lonely and sad is at risk of getting breast cancer, according to a recent study researchers from the Chicago University. How come? What to do?
Although this fact was discovered in guinea pigs, rats, but experts say it may also occur in humans. The existence of this study may be an alternative to get a new type of drug in the prevention of breast cancer which attacks the most beautiful parts of a woman.
The researchers assume that the sense of loneliness and sorrow will make a person stress and depression. Sense of stress and depression that comes later will change some existing gene in breast tissue and the meat will trigger abnormal growth (tumor).
Actually, the relationship between loneliness and breast cancer have been around 100 years ago, but it was still a lot of controversy. There are many conflicts among the investigators about it.
Dr. Suzanne Conzen and colleagues who ran the study examined two groups of rats raised in different environments. One group placed in a social environment and the other was in seclusion.
Researchers found that the more isolated rat nervous and release of stress hormones more in line with increasing age. Stress causes mammary glands (breasts) are located on the female breasts to grow abnormally.
The stress of loneliness turns out not only boost the growth of meat is not normal in the brain (brain tumor) but also in parts of the body including the breast.
Published study in the journal Cancer Prevention Research indicates that the environment is not only an effect on mental health, but also physical health such as breast cancer. Several other studies also noted that loneliness also cause diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.
“Moral support and companionship can reduce those risks. So women should not be too much grief, and seek an environment that can make you socialize. Do not isolate yourself from outside world, and do not forget to do a screening to anticipate every possible bad on your breasts, “said Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK as reported by Dailymail, Friday (02/10/2009).