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Breast Cancer
Studies describe new findings in breast cancer research
December 1st, 2005
Investigators in Shumin, Switzerland and the United States have published new breast cancer data. Study 1: The effect of folate intake on breast cancer risk was evaluated in a recent study. "Folate plays an important role in DNA methylation, and aberrant methylation of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene may be related to the loss of ER gene expression in breast tumors," scientists writing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention report. "Thus, deficient folate status has been hypothesized to be associated primarily with ER gene-negative breast tumors, but data relating folate intake to breast cancer risk...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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