Abstract
AIM: The present investigation was attempted to find out the possible life style risk factors for breast cancer among the breast cancer cases, using a case-control study in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: A total number of 512 breast cancer cases, from various hospitals of Chennai and 540 control women of same age group in same geographical area, were investigated using standard questionnaire that evaluated the various lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer such as BMI, physical exercise, psychological stress, abortion, lifestyle health problems and parity. Results: Karl Pearson's chi-square test was performed to determine the overall association between the lifestyle risk factors and breast cancer. The results revealed that all the lifestyle risk factors investigated were found to be highly significantly associated with breast cancer when compared with control women in Chennai. Conclusion: The lifestyle changes such as overall maintenance of BMI, increasing physical exercise, decreasing psychological stress using yoga, avoiding abortion, increasing parity and eating healthy traditional foods may reduce the risk of breast cancer
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