The Mystery of Fallopian Tube Cancer

Overview

If the data of fallopian tube cancer patients’ history of child delivery, hormonal contraceptive use, body mass indices, diets, physical activity, and breastfeeding as well as their geographic locations and their races are collected and analyzed, then the women who have more children, have used hormonal contraceptives for longer periods of time, had lower body mass indices, had adequate vegetable intake, adequate physical activity, and breastfed for a longer period of time would have a lower likelihood of developing the cancer, and that Caucasian women and Midwestern women will have the highest likelihood of having a later stage cancer. All aspects of this hypothesis were supported by the data that was collected and analyzed. The women who lived in the Midwest had a 35% chance of having an early stage cancer and a 65% chance of having a late stage cancer. Of the Caucasian women, 34.7% had early stage cancer and 65.3% had late stage cancer. The women who breastfed for 13-24 months and got fallopian tube cancer made up 17% of the group, but those who breastfed for 13-24 months in the control group made up 29.3% of the group. Women who had the most children in the 3 or more category for fallopian tube cancer patients comprised 18% of the group, and 27.8% of the control group had 3 or more children. Women who used hormonal contraceptives for 181-240 months and had fallopian tube cancer made up 2% of the group compared to the 9% of the control group women who did not use hormonal contraceptives. Over weight women comprised 49.3% of the patient group, underweight women comprised 14%, and women of normal weight comprised 36.7% of the group. The control group of women had around 31.1% of the group comprised of overweight women, proving a 20% difference between the control and patient groups. Lack of physical activity contributes to these increased body mass indices, especially since 68.5% of the patients were physically inactive. Diet also contributes to this, since 89.4% of the patients had inadequate vegetable intake. In conclusion, the entirety of the hypothesis was supported.

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