Comment on The link between bras and breast cancer by Sarah Best.
An information source that is right about everything? Not realistic.
I actually think the key sentence in the article is this one: “Because the idea of bras’ causing breast cancer is so scientifically implausible, it seems unlikely that researchers will ever spend their time and resources to test it in a real epidemiological study.”
There is no conclusive answer on this. We don’t know. It’s common sense that restricting lymphatic flow can’t be a good thing – therefore is it really so implausible that doing so may increase the risk of disease?
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The link between bras and breast cancer
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The link between bras and breast cancer
If you google “bras and breast cancer”, “Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer”, or their book “Dressed to Kill”, you will find further information on this topic. There are, of course, those who deny there is any link between bras and breast cancer. Some scientists discount Singer and Grismaijer’s findings as their survey was not a properly conducted epidemiological study.
It is for each of us to make up our own minds what we believe. Personally, it makes absolute sense to me that tight bras must hamper the functioning of the lymphatic system – but in this and everything else, I encourage everyone to weigh up the evidence for themselves and do what feels right to them.
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