By Sydney Ross Singer

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Don’t Send Them Money for Breast Cancer Research… Send Them Your Bra!

Does wearing constrictive bras for long periods of time daily contribute to breast cancer?

It does… according to at least 5 research studies and numerous healthcare providers, including oncologists and MD’s. Even some lingerie manufacturers have developed new bra designs hoping to minimize lymphatic constriction and thereby help prevent breast cancer, citing the bra-cancer theory for their patents.

But it doesn’t… according to the American Cancer Society and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, fundraising giants of the cancer detection and treatment world. These foundations consider the link absurd and unworthy of serious consideration, and unquestionably assume that research showing a link must have some other explanation besides bras.

Shrugging off the bra-cancer link is killing hundreds of thousands of women and wasting billions of dollars in unnecessary detection and treatment. I am calling for a boycott of these organizations until they stop dismissing the bra-cancer link, and begin educating doctors and women about the cancer hazards of wearing tight bras that constrict blood- and lymphatic-flow to the breasts.

Komen Foundation and American Cancer Society

Research on the bra wearing habits of US women with and without breast cancer showed that bra-free women have about the same incidence of breast cancer as men, and that the tighter and longer a bra is worn the higher the incidence of breast cancer rose — up to 100 times greater for 24/7 bra wearers.

When cancer organizations were first notified about this discovery, the results were completely ignored or ridiculed. Now, 20 years later, the American Cancer Society and the Susan G. Komen Foundation still ridicule the information out of hand, and try to explain away the link as a ridiculous “myth”.

Why are women not hearing about this from the ACS and Komen Foundation? Why are these organizations so eager to fund-raise for a “cure” yet so opposed to preventing this disease by addressing the bra-cancer link? Could it be because lingerie companies donate to their charities? Could it be that preventing this disease by challenging the cultural norm of bra wearing is too taboo for these ‘detection and treatment’ focused organizations?

Whatever their reason, it is wrong for the bra-cancer link to be dismissed and ignored. Because of this unscientific stonewalling of this information, over the past 20 years 2,000,000 women in the US alone have gotten breast cancer who may have prevented it by simply loosening their bra and wearing it for less time each day.

So I suggest that whenever the ACS or Komen Foundation ask for a donation, send them your bra instead! This will give them the message, and help you prevent breast cancer at the same time.

What Komen and ACS Say:

From Komen.org:

“Scientific evidence does not support a link between wearing an underwire bra (or any type of bra) and an increased risk of breast cancer. There is no biological reason the two would be linked, and any observed relationship is likely due to other factors”.

From cancer.org:

“Internet e-mail rumors and at least one book have suggested that bras cause breast cancer by obstructing lymph flow. There is no good scientific or clinical basis for this claim”.

But don’t wait for the people who profit from cancer to tell you the answer…..

Studies That Support the Bra/Cancer Link:

1. 1991 Harvard study (CC Hsieh, D Trichopoulos (1991). Breast size, handedness and breast cancer risk. European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology 27(2):131-135.). This study found that, “Premenopausal women who do not wear bras had half the risk of breast cancer compared with bra users…”
2. 1991-93 U.S. Bra and Breast Cancer Study by Singer and Grismaijer, published in Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras (Avery/Penguin Putnam, 1995; ISCD Press, 2005) found that bra-free women have about the same incidence of breast cancer as men. 24/7 bra wearing increases incidence over 100 times that of a bra-free woman.
3. Singer and Grismaijer did a follow-up study in Fiji, published in Get It Off! (ISCD Press, 2000) and found 24 case histories of breast cancer in a culture where half the women are bra-free. The women getting breast cancer were all wearing bras. Given women with the same genetics and diet and living in the same village, the ones getting breast disease were the ones wearing bras for work.
4. A 2009 Chinese study (Zhang AQ, Xia JH, Wang Q, Li WP, Xu J, Chen ZY, Yang JM) ‘Risk factors of breast cancer in women in Guangdong and the countermeasures’ (in Chinese. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao. 2009 Jul;29(7):1451-3.) found that NOT sleeping in a bra was protective against breast cancer, lowering the risk by 60%.
5. 2011 a study was published, in Spanish, confirming that bras are causing breast disease and cancer. http://www.portalesmedicos.com/publicaciones/articles/3691/1/Patologias-mamarias-generadas-por-el-uso-sostenido-y-seleccion-incorrecta-del-brassier-en-pacientes-que-acuden-a-la-consulta-de-mastologia- It found that underwired and push-up bras are the most harmful, but any bra that leaves red marks or indentations may cause disease.

Studies That Refute the Bra/Cancer Link:

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Physicians Who Support the Bra/Cancer Link:

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