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Breast Cancer?

If your bra is too tight..will it cause breast cancer?Also my best friend wears two?..For support.Is that risky?

Public Comments

1. no. breast cancer isnt gonna be cause by a tight bra. now maybe if you tight bra is piercing you skin and making you bleed then maybe there might me a threat.
2. Breast cancer is not caused by tight bras, or exercise or anything else in the normal course of human activity. Breast cancer can be 'caused' by genetic mutations (BRAC gene expression, point mutations) or exposure to ionizing radiation.
   I am a large chested woman and when I exercise, I wear two bras, a sport underwire, and then a no-wire sport bra over that to minimize 'bounce' and motion, which is quite uncomfortable.
3. Nothing you wear is going to cause breast cancer.
4. I found a great article called the Link between Breast Cancer and bras. You should check out the website for additional information. Here is a little bit of what I found.
   
   According to a husband and wife research team who published their study of 5000 women in book form, women who wear bras have an increased risk of breast cancer over women who do not wear bras. In their study, this husband and wife team studied a group of about 5000 women, half of whom had breast cancer. One of the things they discovered was that the women in the cancer group had a history of wearing bras tighter and a much longer period of time than the rest of the group.