Young women – current or recent smokers who have smoked a pack a day for a decade or more – have a significantly increased risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer, according to a new study by Dr. Christopher Li and colleagues in the Cancer Epidemiology Research Group in the Public Health Sciences Division. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Kawai M, et al. Active smoking and the risk of estrogen receptor-positive and triple-negative breast cancer among women ages 20 to 44 years. Cancer. 2014 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24515648
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