The endometrial cancer associated with multiple risk factors

The endometrial cancer is associated with various environmental risk factors such as obesity, consumption of animal fats or family history, a Basque researcher concludes at the end of a thesis recently defended at the University Navarre.
The endometrial cancer is very common in industrialized countries. The highest incidences were observed in Luxembourg and the United States, where the prevalence of obesity is also very high, as are diabetes and high blood pressure, note Rocio Montejo.

For his thesis, it has sought to assess the influence of diet and other risk factors on the development of this cancer, with reference to case studies occurred in Navarre.

It appears from the work carried out on 245 women (48 cases of endometrial cancer and 187 controls) and obesity, thyroid disorders, high cholesterol and diabetes mellitus, and family history of endometrial cancer predispose to the development of this type of cancer.

Tobacco, however, appears surprisingly as a protective factor for this cancer. The author is careful not to draw any conclusions and calls for caution in interpreting this result.

According to him, the use of tobacco at the age of reproduction would decrease estrogen levels, which also exposes smokers at greater risk of osteoporosis and menopause early, and thus lessen the risk of cancer endometrial cancer.

Other elements that apparently influence the risk of developing cancer, having had a child, the high consumption of coffee and alcohol appear to be protective factors.

The food has a double influence: if the consumption of animal fats, fatty acids, offal lean smoked fish, oysters and shrimp increases the risk of endometrial cancer, the vegetables, fatty fish, octopus, cod and alpha carotene reduces the.