it doesn t correlate it with breast cancer yet but if you have those other breast diseases it, does put you at an increased risk for breast cancer. this is a very big study and they looked at 6900 girls from ages 9-15. which is significant. right. so if you are a parent and you want to talk to your teenage daughter and i assume it doesn t just affect daughters but sons because men get breast cancer as well, about their drinking. well, they didn t see much difference in girls who were having one or less drinks a week with increased risk but once they moved up to two, three, four, five drinks a week, as they drank more, their risks for breast disease increased. so obviously, we don t want them drinking at all because it puts
motivation especially if their folks talk to them about it. girls who drink alcohol in their teens increase their risk of breast cancer later in life. for more information, let s bring in our medical assistant from mount sinai in new york. good to see you, doc. hi, jamie, how are you? good. what i found interesting about this study is it talked to girls in their teens and this is information right now. does it make the study more accurate? it does in many senses because it looks at had a less september girls, giving an account of how much they are drinking currently and then it looks at if there has been breast disease and what they are looking for here are benign breast diseases, cysts, lumps.
larry: we re back with dr. mehmet oz, the new york times best selling author. host of his own tv show. his show tomorrow will talk about secret signs. i ll get to that in a minute. but we have a twitter question that relates to the last guest. the question is can a sonogram tell for sure that you don t have cancer. you and i have cancer cells in our body, how does your immune system track those cells and knock them off. that s one of the beauties of the immune system, that we re continue yamly looking for cells that don t behave themselves. it s a useful tool, but mammography remains the gold standard. it s not the perfect test. i m looking forward to better tests coming along to help us in the management of breast
mammography remains the gold standard. it s not the perfect test. i m looking forward to better tests coming along to help us in the management of breast disease. larry: ovarian cancer, often called the silent killer, you say there are symptoms women should know, like? when i went through my training, if you had ovarian cancer, we were taught you were going to die. by the time we identified it, it was too late. there are three pairs of symptoms that are essential. the first is around food, if you lose your appetite quickly and don t tolerate the foods you used to have, if you have discomfort in your belly, and thirdly, if you re noticing that you re bloated in your waist, that s because you may have early signs of ovarian cancer. the survival rating are 85% or better if women can track those three basic pairs of symptoms and bring it to the attention of their doctor. a sonogram can be life saving.