Thursday, 20 September 2012

Study links breast cancer risk to early-life diet and metabolic syndrome

Striking new evidence suggesting that diet and related factors early in life can boost the risk for breast cancer — totally independent of the body’s production of the hormone estrogen — has been uncovered by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Berryhill GE, et al. Diet-induced metabolic change induces estrogen-independent allometric mammary growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22988119

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