Expert Says She's Found What Causes Breast Cancer
Many feel that one of the most important steps in curing breast cancer is to find out what causes it. Professor Valerie Beral of Oxford University feels that she may have discovered the cause: the absence of hormonal changes which is connected with childbirth. “But why aren’t we thinking of mimicking the effects of childbirth?” she said. “We don’t know how this happens and nobody is doing research on it. We should be looking at hormone production during late pregnancy and lactation.” Beral wants money to be used to prevent this instead of pouring money into drug treatments. “The one hormone that has to do with breast changes doesn’t appear until late pregnancy. It goes up exponentially. It produces the changes in the breast that make for lactation,” she said. “Why isn’t anyone looking at it?” “It is not well-funded. It is not mainstream research. Why isn’t it a priority of the cancer community?”
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- 10.07.08
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