Breast Cancer

Smoking linked to postmenopausal disease in women with high estrogen levels

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 2nd, 2004

Researchers in Sweden "investigated the association between smoking and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in groups defined by high levels of estrogens, a factor known to enhance tumor progression."

According to their study, "Two prospective cohorts of Swedish women provided 260 postmenopausal breast cancer cases and 514 controls. Blood samples were collected at baseline, and anthropometry, lifestyle factors, and reproductive history had been assessed.

"Subjects were classified into quartiles with regard to the level of estrone, and into three categories with regard to estradiol. All analyses of the relation between smoking and breast cancer were...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-02)

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