According to recent studies, if you will remain happy and optimistic, then these factors can play a major role against breast cancer while adverse life events can increase the chances of developing the disease.

Breast cancer is the second most occurring cancers after lung cancer and initiates in the cells of the breast in both men as well as women. The cure for this disease is surgery and cancer drugs. The study was held at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and this particular statement was published in the British journal BMC Cancer.

During the whole process of research, the people who were involved in the research, asked women about their life experiences and evaluated their levels of reacting to happiness, optimism, anxiety, and depression just before the diagnosis. Further, they implied this information in order to examine the relationship between the events of life, psychological distress as well as breast cancer among young women.

An altogether 622 women between the ages of 25 and 45 were interviewed: 255 were the ones who were suffering from breast cancer and 367 of them were healthy women. The conclusion elaborated that there was a clear link between their individual outlook towards life as well as the risk of breast cancer, with those who are optimists in nature, 25 percent less likely to have developed the disease.

But those who have suffered any kind of traumatic event in their lives had a 62 percent increased risk of the disease.

While lots of innovation are done in the field of pharmaceutical drugs over the years, the researchers are of the view that that young women who have suffered any kind of negative life event in their lives, should be considered 'at-risk' for breast cancer and should be given apt treatment accordingly.

However, there are chances that because these women were interviewed after their treatment, it could have made them recall all those negative things that were held in their lives.

But the researchers still believe that it is really very safe to say that if some one has experienced more than one tragic event in life, then it really raises a red flag of risk for breast cancer among young women. However, if you will be happy and optimistic, then these factors may have protective effect.