Breast Cancer

Risk Linked to Environment and Lifestyle

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 14th, 1995

Many women who move from one country to another eventually will have the same breast cancer risk as women born in the adopted country, according a study published August 2, 1995.

Researchers said that while their findings were not uniformly consistent, they do suggest breast cancer risk is not set in childhood, but can change because of environmental factors in the middle years of life.

Their analysis of breast cancer among immigrants to Australia and Canada showed that up to 83 percent of women coming from countries with low breast cancer risk eventually developed about the same rate of breast cancer as natives of Australia and Canada.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1995-08-14)

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