| An Internet search on bras and their relationship with | | | | fitting bras restrict this same flow thereby causing |
| breast cancer reveals a very unusual result. Despite | | | | toxins to accumulate in the breast area and may help |
| enough specialistic studies and hard proof that | | | | cancer to develop. Toxic materials include DDT, |
| establishes the causality between wearing bras and | | | | dioxin, and benzene all of which cling to fatty human |
| the cancer condition, the two seem tightly linked with | | | | tissue such as the breast. |
| most sources pointing to a book named Dressed to | | | | The book does present some startling statistics: |
| Kill by Singer and Grismaijer. | | | | - 75% of women who wore bras everyday for 24 |
| Bras do not cause it themselves, but wearing sizes | | | | hours developed breast cancer |
| that are too tight may help cancer growth and the | | | | - 14% of women wearing bras more than 12 hours |
| reason for that is tight fitting bras can prevent | | | | per day (not in bed) developed breast cancer |
| women's bodies from excreting toxic and dangerous | | | | - 0.6% of women who wore bras for less than 12 |
| carcinogenic chemicals. Statistics show that eighty | | | | hours a day developed the cancer It is very |
| percent of women wear the wrong-sized bra. | | | | important to note here that the numbers may explain |
| The tight bras restrict lymph flow in the breasts. | | | | a relationship between wearing bras for a long period |
| There are several nodes and pathways in the arm | | | | of time and breast cancer but they do not |
| pits and in between the breasts. The task of the | | | | necessarily prove a causal relationship between the |
| lymph nodes is to flush out waste materials and toxic | | | | two. More research needs to be done on lymphatic |
| material away from the breasts. In theory, tight | | | | system and breast cancer to illuminate this issue. |