[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Breast cancer near MMR (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Breast cancer risk linked to base

By CYNTHIA McCORMICK
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 13, 2008

Researchers from Boston University have found that women who lived near 
the Massachusetts Military Reservation from 1947 to 1956 had an elevated 
risk of developing breast cancer several decades later.

Unlike other cluster studies of cancer cases, researchers at the Boston 
University School of Public Health looked beyond where women lived at 
the time of diagnosis to where they had resided in years past, when it's 
possible they may have been exposed to cancer-causing substances.

"Depending on where you lived 20 to 30 years before you were diagnosed 
could impact whether you got breast cancer," said Veronica Vieira, 
assistant professor of environmental health at the Boston University 
School of Public Health, the lead author of the study published in the 
International Journal of Health Geographics.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/NEWS/810130304/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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Lenny Siegel
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