The latest figures suggest that record numbers of women are being diagnosed with womb cancer because such women are having fewer children or none at all. In past thirty years the rate of disease has increased by fifty percent. According to experts the choice of women to have fewer children or not having any is the main cause of the increase.
Womb cancer typically happens in women after the menopause between the ages sixty and sixty-nine. But doctors believe that when there are higher amount of oestrogen in the blood then women are at more risk of developing it. During pregnancy the level of hormone is low, so women who with fewer kids are exposed to chemical for the longer periods.
Obese and overweight women also have greater level of hormone and fatty tissue changes other hormones into oestrogen. Experts also trait the rise to increasing rates of obesity that doubles the chances of developing a tumour. Experts disclose that nineteen in every one lakh women develop the disease.
It is the fourth most fatal form of cancer that has increased faster than any other form of the cancer. Women are more exposed to womb cancer when they have higher level of oestrogen hormone in their blood. It visibly alters during their menstruation but will reduce when women are pregnant.
It indicates that women who have more kids have less time over their lives when they are exposed to the risk, said health information officer, Jessica Harris at Cancer Research UK. More and more women are putting off to start a family which denotes that they likely to have fewer babies than in earlier decades.
Others prefer not to have any children at all. Official data shows that one in five women not have to have a baby by the time they reach forty twice as many as twenty years ago. They also have smaller families compared to twenty years ago.