Some reports indicate that exposure to specific polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners is
related to breast cancer risk. The authors recruited participants in a case-control study from …

Background: Environmental exposure to organochlorines has been examined as a potential
risk factor for breast cancer. In 1993, five large US studies of women located mainly in the …

This study is one of the very few investigating the body burdens of persistent organic
pollutants in residents of Hong Kong. Twenty-nine human milk samples and 21 human …

In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a
“draft” of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of …

Multivariate methods were used to predict levels of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene (DDE)
and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations in plasma from characteristics that …

We present a combined environmental epidemiologic, genomic, and bioinformatics
approach to identify: exposure of environmental chemicals with estrogenic activity; …

The biological basis for investigating dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) exposure and
breast cancer risk stems from in vitro and animal studies indicating that DDT has estrogenic …

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among Canadian women,
accounting for about 30% of all new cancer cases each year. Although the incidence of …

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) bioaccumulate in the food chain and have been
detected in human blood and adipose tissue. Experimental studies demonstrated that POPs …

Recent epidemiologic studies have suggested that genetic polymorphisms in the
cytochrome P-450 1A1 gene (CYP1A1) may affect the relation between environmental …