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The Faster Your Epigenetics Ages the More Likely You Are to Get Breast Cancer
By T.W.
Post-menopause, your epigenetics is aging pretty quickly. If you are postmenopausal then you are more likely to get breast cancer. The older you get and especially after you have gone through menopause, the more likely your epigenetics DNA has changed. This makes you everything that you are because it is the study of the DNA that you get from your parents and it is shown in everyday life. It is like your biological clock, but with epigenetics, which when means the closer it gets to the end means there is a greater chance of things of happening.
No link between breast cancer and pre-menopause, but that does not mean you get off scot free. Even though there is no link between your epigenetics and not going through menopause you can still get breast cancer for other various reasons. You are more likely to go through cancer from multiple other things in the environment. These things in the environment would be the cancer-causing agents in cigarettes or the suns deeply sinking in rays that cook you from the inside out
The older you are the more likely you will get breast cancer in general. The older you are the more mutated your epigenetics are. The more things you encounter throughout your lifetime such as carcinogens, cancer causing agents, the more your epigenetics will change into something else that it was not meant to be such as something that could possibly kill you.
This experiment is done on women from the ages of twenty-three to seventy-six. This is done to see if being before or after menopause would matter. It is done on such a wide age group of women to see the relationship between the fast aging of epigenetics and how likely you are to get breast cancer.
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