Womb cancer on the rise!

It has been recorded that a great number of women are being diagnosed with womb cancer because they are having fewer children or none at all and because of this their hormone is effected which puts them more at risk. The rates of womb cancer are on the rise and it is the fourth most common form of cancers in women. This is proved by the fact that rates of this disease have increased by almost 50 percent in the past 30 years. Having fewer children is not only the reason for womb cancer because doctors have credited the rise to increased obesity too. It can double the chances for tumor too.

The occurrence of this cancer is usually after menopause and between the age of 60 and 69. Though 50% of all womb cancers are caused due to obesity but doctors do not present any such figures for the number of tumors they believe are caused by having fewer children. Jessica Harris, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "Women are more exposed to womb cancer when there are higher levels of the hormone oestrogen in their blood”. So because of this the menstrual cycle changes obviously and it will also decrease when women are pregnant. Nowadays women do not plan to have children or they avoid till the time they are 40 something and this has been proved by official statistics too. So there are smaller families, with one in ten women having more than four children, compared with one in five 20 years ago. So by all this I conclude by saying that women are doing wrong by not having children at an early age as it creates more than one problem. We might say that career women have a sensible explanation for it but you see the long term disastrous effects which ends your life soon.