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Diet and risk of breast cancer

open access: yesContemporary Oncology, 2014
Diet may play a role in both promoting and inhibiting human breast cancer development. In this review, nutritional risk factors such as consumption of dietary fat, meat, fiber, and alcohol, and intake of phytoestrogen, vitamin D, iron, and folate ...
Manas Kotepui
doaj   +3 more sources

Genetic variation in genes interacting with BRCA1/2 and risk of breast cancer in Cypriot population. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Inability to correctly repair DNA damage is known to play a role in the development of breast cancer. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of DNA repair genes have been identified, which modify the DNA repair capacity, which in turn may affect the risk
Daniel, M   +9 more
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Progestins and the Risk of Breast Cancer [PDF]

open access: yesActa Endocrinologica (Bucharest), 2021
The present paper aims to investigate the effects of both progesterone and progestin treatment mainly related to the occurrence of breast cancer in women.Extensive systematic bibliographic review of Greek and International articles was conducted through the electronic databases Pubmed, Cinahl, Uptodate, and Google Scholar for the identification of ...
Mastorakos, G.   +3 more
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Breast density and risk of breast cancer [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, 2022
AbstractEarly studies reported a 4‐ to 6‐fold risk of breast cancer between women with extremely dense and fatty breasts. As most early studies were case‐control studies, we took advantage of a population‐based screening program to study density and breast cancer incidence in a cohort design.
Elsebeth Lynge   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Journal of Human Genetics, 2020
Previous research has shown that polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can be used to stratify women according to their risk of developing primary invasive breast cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the association between a recently validated PRS of 313 germline variants (PRS313) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk. We included 56,068 women of European
Kramer, I   +224 more
openaire   +15 more sources

Adiponectin and Breast Cancer Risk [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2004
Adiponectin, an adipocyte-secreted hormone, is closely and inversely associated with insulin resistance and was recently found to be inversely and independently associated with endometrial cancer. Because insulin resistance in the setting of obesity has also been associated with the development of breast cancer, we have hypothesized that decreased ...
Mantzoros, C   +10 more
openaire   +3 more sources

What Do We Know About Breast Cancer Risk Tip Sheet

open access: yes, 2001
Tip Sheet on known and possible breast cancer risk factorsBreast cancer risk factors are like pieces of a puzzle. This Tip Sheet provides basic information in a brochure format on the known and possible risk factors for breast cancer.
Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
core   +5 more sources

Preventative therapies for healthy women at high risk of breast cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ivana Sestak Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, UKAbstract: Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the risk of developing estrogen receptor (ER)-positive ...
Sestak I, Sestak, I
core   +1 more source

Breast asymmetry and predisposition to breast cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Introduction It has been shown in our previous work that breast asymmetry is related to several of the known risk factors for breast cancer, and that patients with diagnosed breast cancer have more breast volume asymmetry, as measured from mammograms ...
Lancaster, Gillian   +2 more
core   +6 more sources

Abortion and breast cancer risk [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, 1996
The relationship between spontaneous and induced abortions and breast cancer risk was analyzed using data from a case-control study conducted between June 1991 and February 1994 in 6 Italian centers on 2,569 histologically confirmed incident breast cancer cases and 2,588 controls admitted to hospital for a wide range of acute, non-neoplastic, non ...
A. Tavani   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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