Word: breast
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...Silicone breast implants have been blamed for virtually every ailment imaginable--muscle aches, joint pain, mysterious rashes, even serious autoimmune diseases like lupus and scleroderma. So it is little wonder that implant lawsuits have clogged the nation's courts and forced one manufacturer, Dow Corning, to seek pre-emptive bankruptcy. Yet many medical and legal experts have long suspected that the blame laid on implants is based on "junk science." Last week, in a bold opinion that surprised legal experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants...
Although Jones is handling only 70 breast-implant cases, his opinion is expected to exert considerable influence on other judges who are grappling with similar suits brought by thousands of women. One reason: Jones took the unusual step of appointing four independent experts to assess the purported link between the rupture of silicone implants and specific physical complaints. These experts--an immunologist, an immunologist/toxicologist, a rheumatologist and a polymer chemist--arrived at the same conclusion reached by many others, including Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast...
They also said increased amounts of estrogen may cause breast tissue to be more at weights sensitive to cancer-causing agents later in life...
Those weighing between 7.7 and 8.8 pounds at birth were 14 percent less likely to get breast cancer than those weighing more than 8.8 pounds. The risk was about 32 percent lower at weights between 6.6 and 7.7 pounds and 34 percent lower between 6.6 and 5.5 pounds. Risks dropped 45 percent for weights under 5.5 pounds...
...study, which examined factors in early life that may lead to breast cancer, found that weight in relation to gestational age may be a critical factor. However, prematurity alone was not a predictor of breast cancer...