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WEIGHT WATCH Women can cut their risk of breast cancer in half by keeping their weight stable during adulthood. Reason: body fat raises blood levels of estrogen, a hormone thought to promote the cancer...
...fact both Eappens were still in debt from medical school. Their house was modest by Newton standards. And Deborah Eappen worked only three days a week, coming home at lunchtime to breast-feed her baby when she could, otherwise preparing her milk for Woodward to bottle-feed him. "Everyone has child care in Newton," says Ellen Ishkanian, editor of the local News Tribune, who is sympathetic to Deborah Eappen. "This cuts to the quick. People have to assign some blame" and be able to exclude themselves from the guilt. "If she were a perfect mother, then it could happen...
Hunter said that the difference was not significant enough to indicate that the chemicals were negatively related to developing breast cancer...
Hunter said that the data of two other large studies--one conducted in North California with 150 cases and the other in Europe--both agreed with his conclusion that there is no correlation between plasma chemical level and the risk of breast cancer...
...suspect that exposure to environmental pollutant is accounting for a small proportion, if any, of breast cancer, and we need to turn our attention to other potential causes," Hunter said...