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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their deaths will result not simply from the growth of the cancer in the breast, but from the invasion of other parts of the body by the malignant cells. Untreated breast tumors can metastasize, or spread, rapidly-invading the lungs, skeleton, liver or brain. The spreading cancer can also kill by interfering with the production of substances the body needs for normal functioning, thus weakening the victim and leaving her unable to resist infectious disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Greater Risk. Any woman can develop breast cancer,* but some seem more susceptible to it than others. Statistically, the woman in the greatest danger is someone in her mid- to late 40s, who began menstruating early and continued late, who never had children or did not begin having them until she was past 30, who is obese and whose mother or sister had the disease. This does not mean that someone who fits most or even all of these categories is certain to develop breast cancer. Nor does it mean that the disease is hereditary; no evidence whatever has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...disease does have a disturbing tendency to run in families. A woman whose mother or sister has had breast cancer is twice as likely to develop the disease as a woman with no such family history. If both her mother and sister have had breast cancer, her risk may be 47 times greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Despite years of research, doctors still know relatively little about the cause of breast cancer. There is no certainty about the role of viruses, despite the fact that they are known to cause breast cancers in animals; research has yet to establish that they can do the same in humans. Virus-like particles have been found in the breast milk of women with cancer and family histories of the disease. But viruses have also been detected in the milk of women who have not had cancer. Hormones produced by women during the menstrual cycle and pregnancy are also under suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Diet has also been implicated as a factor in breast cancer, which appears to be more common in countries where people consume large quantities of animal fats. In the U.S., the disease appears more frequently among the affluent and well fed than among other groups. Japan, where the traditional diet is low in animal fats, has the lowest breast-cancer rate of 39 countries covered in a recent study. But even there the rate is rising as Japanese forsake their old diet of fish and rice for a Westernized menu of meat and fats. Japanese women who emigrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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