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Article: Breast cancer and the modern woman.(Metro & National News)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 15, 2005
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Byline: JENNY F. MANONGDO
Contrary to myth, wearing padded bras with underwire and breast augmentation do not cause breast cancer.
There have been no concrete evidences yet that point to padded bras and breast implants as culprits of breast cancer.
Dr. Francisco Lopez, a medical oncologist at the Makati Medical Center, said that wearing padded and wired bras do not make one prone to breast cancer.
Consequently, he said that breast enlargement does not make a woman a candidate of the dreaded disease that is the top cause of cancer deaths for women in the Philippines as documented by the Philippine Cancer Society (PCS).
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