The women who suffer from migraines can bring at least some comfort a recent in, in first his/her/its kind survey that suggests a history of such headaches is associated with a considerably lower risk of breast cancer.

    A team of research to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Searches for Center in Seattle, Washington, returned the findings in the November publish epidemiology of the Cancer, Biomarkers and Prevention.

    "We found that, total, the women who had a history of migraines had a 30 percent risks lower of breast cancer compared to women who didn't have a history of such headaches", said the authors. The findings can point to new ways to reduce a woman's risk for breast cancer, they said.

    In particular, a history of migraines appears to reduce the risk of the most common subclasses of breast cancer:  what is receiving estrogen and/or positive progesterone-receiving. The such tumors have the estrogen and/or receiving of the progesterone, or to moor some sites, on the surface of their cells that makes them more sensitive to the drugs of the hormone-blockage that tumors that lack such receptors.

    The biologic mechanism behind the association between migraines and the breast cancer is not known completely, but the researchers suspect that it must make with the variations in levels of circulating hormones.

    The migraines appear to have a hormonal component in it they frequently take place more in the women that in the men, and some of their known triggers are associated with the hormones, the authors said.

    While these results have need to be interpreted with prudence, they point to a new possible factor that can be told to face the cancer risks. "It gives us a new avenue to explore the biology behind reduction of the risk. With optimism it could help to stimulate other ideas and could spread what we know about the biology of breast cancer", the authors said.

 

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