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Birth Size and Breast Cancer

Posted on October 03, 2008

And you thought your relationship to your mother was already complicated. Last year we learned that the size of your mother's hips might affect your risk for breast cancer. Daughters born to mothers with wide hips, according to a Finnish study, are three times as likely to develop breast cancer. New research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine adds more insight to the mother-daughter breast cancer connection. This time, however, the factors putting you at risk are your birth weight and birth length. After analyzing data from 32 studies that evaluated more than 22,000 cases ...

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breast cancer , cancer