Do bras really cause breast cancer, or is that just a myth perpetuated by hippies and
perverts?
Hey guys, Tara here for Dnews - and it seems like cancer is one of those weird areas of
medicine that people love to develop theories about.
“Don’t eat that food - it contains cancer chemicals” “Don’t use products that
contain parabens, they’ll give you cancer!”
But what about bras?
I mean aside from sucking, can they really cause cancer?
Not a lot of people gave much thought to that question, until 2005 - when a book was published
by authors who claimed to have evidence of a link between bras and breast cancer.
The idea was that bras impede on the circulation and drainage of your lymphatic system, which
interferes with your body’s waste removal process, and boosts your risk for breast cancer.
A lot of media outlets immediately grabbed onto that story, and ran with it - supporting
it with the fact that breast cancer is more common in developed countries - which they
claim, could’ve been related to the fact that women in those areas are more likely
to wear bras.
It makes sense to a point, but according to a new study - it’s also blatantly false.
For their study, researchers evaluated over 1,000 women who had been diagnosed with breast
cancer between 2000 and 2004, comparing them to 469 women who didn’t have breast cancer.
They also gathered a bunch of data on the types of bras those women wore - including
cup size and the presence of an underwire - as well as when they began wearing them,
and how many hours a day they wore them.
Any confounding factors, like family history of breast cancer, height, weight, race, income,
etc - were all accounted for.
According to researchers, their results definitively found no evidence that wearing a bra increases
a woman’s risk for breast cancer.
It seems no matter how often you wear a bra, or what kind of bra you wear - the risk is
the same either way.
So burn your bra, don’t burn your bra - whatever you choose!
Because either way, it does not matter.
And hey - if you’re itching to learn more about the wonderful world of bras, let me
point you to another show I host called Anyhoo, where we recently did an episode with 8 busty
facts about bras.
For instance - did you know that the largest bra size ever recorded was a 102 ZZZZ?
I’ll bet you didn’t - and it’s that kind of hard-hitting investigative reporting
that we love here at Discovery.
If you wanna check out more of Anyhoo, just head over to youtube.com/revision3 - and in
the meantime, if you guys have any questions, comments, rants about bras maybe - just leave
em in the comments below.
Otherwise, thanks for watching!