Breast cancer - what can employers do to help?
John Picken, Director of the health and wellbeing consultancy Shandwell, reviews the latest research on breast cancer and the implications for employers.
It’s a startling statistic, but according to Cancer Research UK (CRUK) one woman in eight will get breast cancer.
The risk increases with age yet this is not a condition that just affects older women.
It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women under 35. In fact, the risk for women between 30 and 39 is one in 215: for women between 40 and 49 the risk increases to one in 50. The current NHS Breast Screening programme starts at age 50 and is offered only every three years after that, up to age 70.
The CRUK research suggests that unhealthy lifestyle factors and having a family history of the disease increase a woman’s risk. Women having fewer children later in life also increases the risk. There are many, some unknown, variables at work here.
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