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Environmental oestrogens, cosmetics and breast cancer.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Mar 2006
Darbre P D
Abstract excerpt
The established role of oestrogen in the development and progression of breast cancer raises questions concerning a potential contribution from the many chemicals in the environment which can enter the human breast and which have oestrogenic activity. A range of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls possess oestrogen-mimicking properties and have been measured in human breast adipose tissue and...
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