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Breast Cancer
Tobacco smoke and smoking increases risk in premenopausal Japanese women
April 14th, 2005
Tobacco smoke and smoking increases the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal Japanese women, report cancer prevention specialists. T. Hanaoka and colleagues with Japan's National Cancer Center said, "To examine the hypothesis that tobacco smoke is associated with the risk of female breast cancer, we estimated the relative risks of active and passive smoke in middle-aged Japanese women in a population-based prospective study. "The cohort consisted of residents in four public health center areas, aged 40 to 59 years. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted in 1990. This analysis included 21,805 subjects, 180 of whom had developed...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)
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