Friday, 19 September 2014

Bras cause breast cancer? No support for that claim, Fred Hutch study finds

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center conducted a population-based, case-control study to consider whether the brassieres worn daily by millions of women might be linked to the disease that kills about 40,000 in the U.S. each year. What they found was a resounding no, no matter how many ways they looked at bra-use data from more than 1,000 Seattle-area women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer between 2000 and 2004. Read more here.

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