Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speculating that breast cancer may originate in the uterus, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that breast cancer risk as an adult is linked to infant birth weight...
Women in the study who weighed less than 5.5 pounds at birth had about half the risk of breast cancer than women who weighed more than 8.8 pounds, according to the study, reported in last week's Lancet, a British medical journal...
...study shows a significant relationship between weight and future breast cancer risk," Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the School of Public Health and the lead author of the study, said in a statement. "But this should not lead women to strive for lower birth weight while pregnant...
...authors suggested that the surge of maternal estrogen to the infant, which is correlated with higher birth weights, may be a factor that increases risk of breast cancer for the female fetus...
...Crimson turns to breast strokers Buckley and freshman Alexis Todor, as well as back strokers sophomore Christen Deveny and junior Stephanie Lawrence to pace the squad. Junior Keiko Iwahara, too, should extend her dominant presence in the freestyle sprints...