exercise fights cancer. Dr. Bernstein says that exercising reduces a woman's exposure to estrogen, reducing that possible oncogen (Exercise Reduces Breast Cancer). Several "miracle foods" have been tried and marketed as cancer fighting agents. One such food is the green tea leaf. Dr. Rajendra G. Mehta at the University of Illinois made a synthetic form of vitamin D-5 that killed cancer cells in a lab culture (Newly Synthesized Compound Can Inhibit Development of Precancerous Cells). People who regularly consume hard liquor, beer or wine experience 1.3 times the relative risk of breast cancer. Those who have more than nine drinks a week have an increase of two and a half times the rate of breast cancer for a non-drinking person. In 1987, the National Cancer Institute published a report comparing 1524 women with breast cancer against a control group of 1896 without the disease. Again, alcohol appeared to promote breast cancer (Risk Factors for Breast Cancer). Several medical procedures or side effects of them have been thought to promote breast cancer. It was hypothesized that self-induced abortions could greatly increase the chances of getting cancer, as during pregnancy the cells in the breast quickly divide and reproduce. By having an abortion and thus suddenly halting cell division, a number of cells would become greatly unprotected by there not being any differentiation, and thus would be vulnerable to cancer (Risk Factors for Breast Cancer). Radiation has also been thought of, and for all thorough purposes has been proven to be a cause of breast cancer. There have been three major studies that have been done concerning radiation. The first was performed around the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was quickly ascertained that within a ten mile radius of the bombing there was a definite cancer zone. More importantly, younger people got much more cancer, especially with regards to breast cancer, than did older ones. This forces ...
