{"id":24553,"date":"2019-01-08T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=24553"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:37:05","slug":"vasomotor-symptoms-linked-to-increase-risk-of-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/vasomotor-symptoms-linked-to-increase-risk-of-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasomotor symptoms linked to increase risk of breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cancer-mama-sintomas-vasomotores.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cancer-mama-sintomas-vasomotores.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cancer-mama-sintomas-vasomotores-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cancer-mama-sintomas-vasomotores-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>A large-scale study published in <em>Menopause, <\/em>the journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), found that <strong>women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS) are at more risk of develop breast cancer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study included data of 25,000 women that participated in the Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI) trials. The <strong>following up of these women for 17.9 years revealed that 1,399 developed breast cancer, and women with VMS that lasted 10 or more years had higher breast cancer incidence than those that did not experienced VMS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of breast cancer survival rates, the <strong>study did not found a statistically significant difference between women that suffered VMS and those who did not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>association may be explained by hormonal levels<\/strong>. Particularly, VMS are usually treated with hormone therapy and sex hormone levels also are related to higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>In this large group of women who were not users of hormone therapy, persistent hot flashes and night sweats for 10 or more years were associated with a slight but significant increase in breast cancer incidence<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director. &#8220;<em>Other risk factors included an elevated body mass index of more than 30 and current alcohol use. More studies are needed in women who have persistent hot flashes to understand their cardiovascular and cancer risks<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>SINC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale study published in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), found that women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS) are at more risk of develop breast cancer. The study included data of 25,000 women that participated in the Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI) trials. The following up of these women for 17.9 years &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-24553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24766,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24553\/revisions\/24766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}