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Migraines may be a good thing, for women anyway according to researchers.

A recent study suggested that migraines could mean a reduced risk of developing breast cancer in women.
Dr. Christopher I. Li a researcher of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle discovered that in a recent study that consisted of 9,000 individuals, that women with the history of migraines were 26 percent unlikely to develop breast cancer. In an earlier study by Li and his colleagues that consisted of 2,000 women discovered that 33 percent had a lower risk of breast cancer among the participants with migraines.

The researchers report state that low estrogen levels seem to increase the frequency and severity of the migraines consistent in women and that hormone levels that are increased have a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

In this most recent study that Li and his team did consisted of 4,568 women that had breast cancer. The ages ranged from 34 to 64 and asked questioned on their lifestyle factors on migraines, smoking, and alcohol consumption. All the women were diagnosised with breast cancer at least 11 years ago. They were picked from the metropolitan areas from Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle and Atlanta. Another group of women that consisted of 4,678 who don’t have breast cancer, are in the same age group, and lived in the same communities and were asked the same questions.

The majority of the women who had been diagnosed with migraines had a significantly lower percent of risk of breast cancer than those that had survived breast cancer and not diagnosed with migraines.

More research and studies need to be done in order to have a proven theory, but those with migraines shouldn’t look at them as a bad thing.