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Researchers Spot New Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Posted 1 Nov 2010 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Nov. 1 – Women with dense breasts and no lobular involution – an age-related change in breast tissue – are at increased risk for breast cancer, a new study finds. It included 2,666 women, aged 18 to 85, with benign breast disease who were followed for an average of 13.3 years. During that time, 172 (6.5 percent) of the women developed breast cancer. The Mayo Clinic researchers found that breast density and lobular involution were independent risk factors for breast cancer. The study appears online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "Our findings also reveal that having a combination of dense breasts and no lobular involution was associated with higher breast cancer risk than having non-dense or fatty breasts and complete involution," they wrote in a news release from the publisher. "Lobular involution is the physiological atrophy of the breast epithelium [the ... Read more
Related support groups: Breast Cancer, Prevention, Fibrocystic Breast Disease
Teen Drinking May Boost Breast Problems Later
Posted 12 Apr 2010 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, April 12 – Frequent alcohol consumption by teenage girls may increase the chances that they will develop non-cancerous breast disease in their 20s and possibly breast cancer later in life. Research published online April 12 in the journal Pediatrics found that girls who drank the most alcohol during their teen years – daily or nearly every day – were five times more likely to develop benign breast disease as young adults than were their peers who never drank or drank less than once a week. Benign breast disease (BBD) includes a number of nonmalignant conditions. Fibroadenoma, a noncancerous tumor, is the most common in those aged 30 and younger. Study co-author Catherine Berkey, a biostatistician at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said that benign breast disease is known to boost the risk for breast cancer. So does that mean that teens who drink alcohol are increasing their ... Read more
Related support groups: Breast Cancer, Prevention, Fibrocystic Breast Disease, Acute Alcohol Intoxication