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Breast Disease
Body fat at young age may reduce incidence of breast disease in premenopausal women
February 16th, 2006
Body fatness at young age may reduce the incidence of breast disease in premenopausal women. "Proliferative benign breast disease is a marker of increased breast cancer risk, yet little is known about its etiology," investigators in the United States report. "Most studies of benign breast disease have focused only on risk factors in adulthood, despite growing evidence that factors in early life influence breast cancer risk." H.J. Baer and colleagues of Harvard University wrote, "We explored the relations of several early life factors with incidence of proliferative benign breast disease among 71,896 premenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study II...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-16)
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