Study: Left Handed Women at Higher Risk of Breast Cancer
27th Sep 2005, 00:26 GMT
Left-handed women are more than twice as likely as right-handed women to suffer from breast cancer before reaching menopause. Researchers at the University Medical Center in Utrecht in the Netherlands found the correlation in their study of 12,000 women who were part of a breast cancer screening program. The researchers think that there is a shared origin early in life for both left-handedness and developing breast cancer, possibly exposure to hormones in the womb. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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