Healthy Life Journal

Women lifestyle is unhealthy triggers cancer. Not surprisingly, the number of cancer patients from the weaker sex quickly menajak / Corbis

Women were more vulnerable to cancer. Therefore, the air should begin to implement a healthy lifestyle with healthy food consumption as well.

We have cancer is one cause of death in the world. World Health Organization (WHO) states, in the year 2015, an estimated 9 million people who died of cancer in 2030 and there are an estimated 11.4 million cancer deaths.

The number of deaths from cancer is greater than the total number of deaths due to TB, HIV, and malaria. Therefore, cancer can happen to any and all parts of the body and all the people although more at the age above 40 years.

WHO reveals an increase in the number of cancer patients every year to reach 6.25 million people and two-thirds come from developing countries including Indonesia. In Indonesia, there are currently estimated new cancer 1: 1000 population per year.

According to data from the Ministry of Health (MOH), cancer is the leading cause of death in Indonesia and 5 increased significantly. Ironically, in developing countries, 80-90 percent usually can not be cured because the patient came in who had advanced stages.

Indeed, until now there has been no accurate data on cancer in Indonesia. However, it is known from the summary of Pathology Center for Indonesia, from 10 types of cancer most common in Indonesia, cervical cancer (cervical) and breast cancer occupies the highest numbers. This fact proves class women are most at risk for cancer than men.

Chairman II Indonesia Cancer Foundation (YKI) Dr. MHA said Melissa Luwia not be known for sure why women are more susceptible to cancer. “From the statistical data are expressed like that. It is not known exactly why women are the most suffering from cancer than men, “he said.

Unhealthy lifestyles, smoking, and eating fatty foods, Melissa says, is the factor most trigger cancer. Nowadays the women tend to do things that harm health. Not surprisingly, the number of cancer patients from the rapidly rising air.

“It’s not all of the lifestyle. However, cancer usually adopt a lifestyle that is not good. For example cervical cancer because she had sex with many people. Breast cancer due to fatty foods. Lung cancer from smoking, “he said.

Melisa said, due to the high cancer rates in women, the early detection of cancer has become so important to suppress the death rate. The low awareness of reproductive health that finally brought women at risk of death. Not to mention the added position of women as “second person” in her family increasingly powerless to control health.

One of the cancer prevention efforts that can be done is by Smer Pap tests, to determine at an early stage of cervical cancer which until now still at the top causes of death among women in Indonesia.

Apart from Smer Pap tests regularly, cervical cancer prevention in women, among them implement healthy lifestyle, balancing food, eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, avoid smoking or having contact with a man who was smoking, and maintaining a good sexual behavior. “As soon checked myself when encounter unusual disorder,” he said.

Known, cervical cancer can develop when abnormal cells in the cervix (the area connecting the uterus and vagina) began divide uncontrollably. Cervical cancer is caused 99 percent of human papilloma virus (HPV). In addition to always change of partners, several other factors that make a history of HPV infection is a young married at age less than 20 years, often suffer from sexually transmitted infections, smoking and mothers who gave birth to many children.

Meanwhile, the exact causes of breast cancer until now unknown. However, there are things or habits that have been known to increase one’s risk of breast cancer. Among women 35-49 years age group, have a history of breast cancer in close relatives and have a history of benign breast disease / tumors.

In addition, first menstruation at an early age, menopause late in life also potentially affected by this disease. This is because the body longer hormone exposure. Not married, not breastfeeding, infertility, their first child over 35 years, radiation, excessive alcohol consumption, high-fat diet, obesity, a long-term hormone therapy, also increases the risk of breast cancer.

To detect this cancer early, including easy. Women are encouraged to perform breast self-examination (Sana) regularly every month, several days after menstruation stops. Known, about one in ten women developed breast cancer potential. Meanwhile, in the case of male breast cancer is much less about 1 percent. During the year 2005, recorded 502,000 people died from breast cancer. High mortality is due to low coverage of early detection due to lack of public knowledge about breast cancer itself.

In addition to two types of cancer above, women are also vulnerable to lung cancer. It was caused by cigarettes. In fact, despite smoking less than men, women were more susceptible to the effects of lung damage due to substances that are carcinogens in a cigarette.

Conclusions are made based on research conducted on 700 patients of lung cancer recently. The researchers found, although the quantity of women smoke less than men, they tend to age was younger when diagnosed with lung cancer. Another study conducted by experts at Harvard University, United States and the University of Bergen in Norway for 950 men and women who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diseases caused by cigarettes, found similar results.

Known, COPD patients are generally older women younger when they were diagnosed as having the disease, and they smoke less than men. “Women are more vulnerable to the effects of lung damage from smoking,” said Dr. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim, guest researcher at Harvard University who presented her research results in the annual meeting of the American Society’s Thoraric.

In conclusion, one of the cancer prevention efforts is to improve the quality of life and it can be started from home. Because of that true, it is necessary strived how knowledge about cancer was known in every household.