Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sororities spend a lot of time on philanthropic acitivites," Keegan says. "They coordinate their own activities with national sororities. For instance, Alpha Tau Omega sells daffodils for the American Cancer Society...
Scientists have already associated a high risk of breast cancer with early menarche, Frisch says, so the later a girl's menarche, the better her future health will probably be. "It is a good thing for young girls to start exercise early," she says...
Frisch, who works at the Center for Population Studies, conducted yet another analysis in 1985 of more than 5000 college alumnae, some of whom participated in athletics. "The alumni who had exercised in college had less cancer of the breast and reproductive system," she says...
...their estrogen to "non-potent" forms, to which the reproductive organs will not respond. The increase in non-potent estrogen production also means that there is less normal hormone circulating in the blood, and this may lead to a lower risk of estrogen-dependent tumor development, such as breast cancer, Snow says...
...project's tests follows the breakdown of estrogen by allowing doctors to trace low levels of radioactive forms of the hormone molecules through the body. "Athletes destroy estrogen faster than non-athletes, so their bodies are exposed to less" of the hormone, and this may lead to decreased cancer risk, says Barbieri, who has worked with both Frisch and Snow in the past...