Established breast cancer risk factors and risk of intrinsic tumor subtypes

ME Barnard, CE Boeke, RM Tamimi - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2015 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with multiple intrinsic tumor subtypes. These
subtypes vary in tumor gene expression and phenotype, and are most commonly grouped …

Links between alcohol consumption and breast cancer: a look at the evidence

Y Liu, N Nguyen, GA Colditz - Women's health, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Alcohol consumption by adult women is consistently associated with risk of breast cancer.
Several questions regarding alcohol and breast cancer need to be addressed. Menarche to …

Rotating night-shift work and the risk of breast cancer in the nurses' health studies

LR Wegrzyn, RM Tamimi, BA Rosner… - American journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared shift work that
involved circadian disruption to be a “probable” carcinogen (group 2A), noting that human …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology and prognosis of breast cancer in young women

HA Assi, KE Khoury, H Dbouk, LE Khalil… - Journal of thoracic …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women with 6.6% of cases diagnosed in
young women below the age of 40. Despite variances in risk factors, Age Standardized …

The tumor suppressor p53 regulates polarity of self-renewing divisions in mammary stem cells

A Cicalese, G Bonizzi, CE Pasi, M Faretta, S Ronzoni… - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Stem-like cells may be integral to the development and maintenance of human cancers.
Direct proof is still lacking, mainly because of our poor understanding of the biological …

Understanding and effectively addressing breast cancer in A frican A merican women: Unpacking the social context

DR Williams, SA Mohammed, AE Shields - Cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Black women have a higher incidence of breast cancer before the age of 40 years, more
severe disease at all ages, and an elevated mortality risk in comparison with white women …

Breast cancer in young women

SA Narod - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2012 - nature.com
About one in 300 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 40.
Advances in screening have not had an impact on mortality in women who are too young to …

Risks and benefits of dietary isoflavones for cancer

S Andres, K Abraham, KE Appel… - Critical reviews in …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A high intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of cancer. In this context,
considerable attention is paid to Asian populations who consume high amounts of soy and …

Night work and breast cancer: A population‐based case–control study in France (the CECILE study)

F Menegaux, T Truong, A Anger… - … journal of cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Night work involving disruption of circadian rhythm was suggested as a possible cause of
breast cancer. We examined the role of night work in a large population‐based case‐control …

Risk of breast cancer and adipose tissue concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides: a hospital-based case-control study in Chinese …

W Huang, Y He, J Xiao, Y Huang, A Li, M He… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) are suspected to be associated with breast cancer …