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Breast Cancer
Pregnancy hormones and maternal diet may reduce breast cancer risk in offspring
March 9th, 2006
Pregnancy hormones and maternal diet may reduce breast cancer risk in the offspring. "Birth weight is positively associated with the risk of breast cancer in the offspring and the underlying process is likely to involve the pregnancy endocrine milieu," noted a study group at the University of Athens. "We examined the association of diet and related factors during pregnancy with the levels (at the 16th and 27th gestational week) of maternal pregnancy estradiol, estriol, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), progesterone and prolactin, in a cohort of 270 Caucasian women who delivered in a major hospital in Boston, USA." P. Lagiou and colleagues...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-03-09)
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