Breast Cancer Risk and Environmental Exposures
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Breast cancer risk and environmental exposures.
Although environmental contaminants have potential to affect breast cancer risk, explicit environmental links to this disease are limited. The most well-defined environmental risk factors are radiation exposure and alcohol ingestion. Diet is clearly related to the increased incidence of breast cancer in developed countries, but its precise role is not yet established. Recent studies have implic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3433299