Childbirth without breast-feeding increased ER/PR-negative breast cancer risk. Oral contraceptives were not associated with ER/PR-negative breast cancer. Findings consistent with studies of breast-feeding and triple-negative breast cancer. Breast-feeding reduced the...
Non-Hispanic black women diagnosed with breast cancer, specifically those with estrogen receptor-positive tumors, are at a significantly increased risk for breast cancer death compared with non-Hispanic white women. “This difference was greatest in the first...
• Two or more full-term births put African-American women at higher risk. • Increased risk occurred only in women who did not breast-feed. PHILADELPHIA — African-American women are at higher risk for hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult...
Photo: Quinn Dombrowski Findings suggest the effects of food may be more complex. Adverse effect observed in younger women. PHILADELPHIA — Soy isoflavone supplements did not decrease breast cancer cell proliferation in a randomized clinical trial, according to a study...
• Precancerous cells that consume sugar more common in this population. • Prediabetes or gestational diabetes could speed development of cancer cells. Certain cancer signaling pathways that are activated in aggressive cancer can be detected very early, even in...
