Cancer Tip: Study Links Breast Cancer Risk to Epigenetic Changes Related to Race, Smoking and Birth Size

LOS ANGELES - Women can encounter environmental factors that increase their risk of breast cancer at various periods of their physical development, beginning before birth and extending until menopause. These non-inherited, or epigenetic, changes in DNA can correlate with risk factors for breast cancer, according to research being presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. >>> Discuss This Story

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