Database Helps Assess Your Breast Cancer Risk

US News & World Report: HealthDay News, January 25, 2009
By Serena Gordon

Lifestyle factors and environmental hazards are included in the searchable site

Excerpt: If you want to learn more about the key risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, pollutants or smoking, a database can guide you to the available evidence that confirms or quells an association.

"Breast cancer is multifactorial. It would be rare for there to be a single environmental chemical that alone would be sufficient to cause an increase in breast cancer," said Dr. Robert Schneider, co-director of breast cancer research at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

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