Smoking at a younger age increases breast cancer risk
3rd Dec 2005, 13:30 GMT
Filed under: Breast Cancer Apparently, smoking cigarettes before your first child, or first full-term pregnancy increases the chances of developing breast cancer by 20 percent. that is a significant increase discovered by researchers at Mayo Clinic. It is a hypothesis now supported by increased research. Breast cancer usually affects cells similiar to ones found before menopause and before a young woman has her first full-term pregnancy. The amount of cigarettes and the duration of smoking didn't seem to change the heightened chances of developing breast cancer. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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