[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Alarming breast cancer rates among troops"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Alarming breast cancer rates among troops


By Jon R. Anderson
Marine Corps Times
October 1, 2012

If you think breast cancer is just something for your grandmother,  
mom and aunts to worry about, think again. Not only is breast cancer  
striking relatively young military women at alarming rates, but male  
service members, veterans and their dependents are at risk, as well.

With their younger and generally healthier population, those in the  
military tend to have a lower risk for most cancers than civilians,  
including significantly lower colorectal, lung and cervical cancer  
rates in certain groups.

But breast cancer is a different story.

"Military people in general, and in some cases very specifically, are  
at a significantly greater risk for contracting breast cancer," says  
Dr. Richard Clapp, a top cancer expert at Boston University. Clapp,  
who works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on  
military breast cancer issues, says life in the military can mean  
exposure to a witch’s brew of risk factors directly linked to greater  
chances of getting breast cancer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2012/10/offduty-how-you-can-give- 
breast-cancer-the-boot-100112w/

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Lenny Siegel
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