2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Breast cancer near MMR (MA)
 
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.

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

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