{"id":335356,"date":"2010-02-18T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/18\/do-bras-cause-breast-cancer\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:35:00","slug":"do-bras-cause-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335356","title":{"rendered":"Do Bras Cause Breast Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/breast-cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\">Breast Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/bra.jpg\" \/>For over a decade, there have been rumours of a connection between the wearing of bras and the prevalence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=breast%20cancer\">breast cancer<\/a>. Some of the rumours allege that women who wear bras are 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who forgo bras. Underwire has also been blamed as a culprit, with allegations that the wire prevents lymphatic drainage and traps potentially fatal toxins in the breast tissue. Some sites have even alleged that the connection between bras and cancer is much stronger than the connection between smoking and cancer. <\/p>\n<p>While most of us are wise enough to be dubious about many of the things we read online, some of the information has come from seemingly credible sources. This week, The New York Times article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/16\/science\/16qna.html?ref=science\" >Q&amp;A: Bras and Cancer<\/a>&#8221; asked Dr. Ted Gansler, director of medical content for the American Cancer Society to respond to the rumour.<\/p>\n<p>So, is there a connection between bras and breast cancer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/18\/do-bras-cause-breast-cancer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Do Bras Cause Breast Cancer?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/18\/do-bras-cause-breast-cancer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19362219\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/18\/do-bras-cause-breast-cancer\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Health, Breast Cancer For over a decade, there have been rumours of a connection between the wearing of bras and the prevalence of breast cancer. Some of the rumours allege that women who wear bras are 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who forgo bras. Underwire has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}