http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/23/breast-cancer-tobacco.html
- Recent scientific studies from the Ontario tobacco research unit have found that young women who smoke, or are exposed to second hand smoke, have an 80 to 90 percent increased risk of becoming inflicted with breast cancer. Researchers decided to do a study on the link to smoking and breast cancer because of the great increase of breast cancer over the past years. They also found that women with a specific genetic makeup called “NAT2 slow acetylation genotype” were 35 to 50 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. Within the research they found that there was not enough evidence in the link between second hand smoke and post-menopausal women and breast cancer. Research director panelist Anthony Miller from the university of Dalla Lana School of Public Health, informs us that "Even moderate exposure to passive smoking such as living or working with a smoker early in life increases a woman's risk of breast cancer when she's in her 30s, 40s or 50s." This shocking news will hopefully give teenager’s, and anyone who smokes, a better understanding of the long term effects smoking has on the people around them, or even someone from their own family.
- Recent scientific studies from the Ontario tobacco research unit have found that young women who smoke, or are exposed to second hand smoke, have an 80 to 90 percent increased risk of becoming inflicted with breast cancer. Researchers decided to do a study on the link to smoking and breast cancer because of the great increase of breast cancer over the past years. They also found that women with a specific genetic makeup called “NAT2 slow acetylation genotype” were 35 to 50 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. Within the research they found that there was not enough evidence in the link between second hand smoke and post-menopausal women and breast cancer. Research director panelist Anthony Miller from the university of Dalla Lana School of Public Health, informs us that "Even moderate exposure to passive smoking such as living or working with a smoker early in life increases a woman's risk of breast cancer when she's in her 30s, 40s or 50s." This shocking news will hopefully give teenager’s, and anyone who smokes, a better understanding of the long term effects smoking has on the people around them, or even someone from their own family.
