Environmental oestrogens and breast cancer prevention

Can limiting exposure to environmental estrogens help prevent breast cancer?


This is a breast cancer prevention study from The University of Reading. This study discusses environmental compounds with estrogenic activity. The researchers state that environmental estrogens can cause estrogenic responses even at very low concentrations such as those found in the breast.

Terms used in this study: environmental estrogens, assayable estrogenic responses, upper outer quadrant of the breast.

The authors conclude that if estrogenic chemicals in consumer products increase the risk of breast cancer then prevention is possible

Environmental oestrogens and breast cancer: evidence for combined involvement of dietary, household and cosmetic xenoestrogens. - Anticancer Res. 2010 Mar;30(3):815-27.