Is wearing a bra a risk factor for developing breast cancer?
According to Elizabeth Vaughn, MD, at www.brafree.org, the answer is yes. In the November 4, 1978 issue of Lancet, John Douglass, MD, from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, tactually noted the breast temperatures of 550 women after bra removal. Large, bra-encased breasts were hotter than smaller ones, but braless breasts, large, medium, or small, were cool. Observing that men with undescended testes have a high cancer incidence due to glandular tissue overheating, and testicular cancer increasing markedly after men began wearing hotter jockey-type underwear, he suggested that a similar mechanism was at work with breast cancer. If women keep their breasts hot, they develop more cancer. In the early 1990s, medical anthropologists, Sydney Singer and Soma Grismaijer, studied 4,500 women in 5 cities across the U.S. about their habits in purchasing and wearing bras, and later published their findings in the book, Dressed to Kill. Though the study did not take into account oth
