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During the early stages of a first pregnancy, breast tissue cells rapidly multiply as they prepare a network of milk ducts. If the pregnancy is terminated prematurely and the process is interrupted, breast tissue cells remain suspended in this state and are hence more susceptible to malignancy, said Somerville...
Several local and national breast cancer experts were unavailable yesterday to comment on Somerville's hypothesis...
Somerville said birth control pills, which somesay account for the rise of breast cancer over thepast two decades, were not available in therepublics of the former Soviet Union. But a 1989study shows that incidence of breast cancer amongRussian, Estonian, and Soviet Georgian womentripled from 1960-1987, he said...
Somerville said that region's high rate ofabortion may explain the dramatic increase inincidence of breast cancer...
Howe's report noted a 90 percent increase inthe risk for breast cancer for women who abortedtheir first pregnancy...