Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9892015 | The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The message of preventability of breast cancer is that mammary epithelial differentiation should come early. Our insight concerning events in puberty and early adulthood can be consolidated in one concept on the risk of extended proliferation of breast epithelium during early adulthood in the absence of full differentiation induced by pregnancy. The combined effects of Western-type nutrition, lack of exercise and Western-type women's emancipation sets the stage for breast cancer already at a young age. Since it is unlikely that emancipated women in affluent societies will return to the original life-style of getting pregnant as soon as it is biologically possible, a novel daring way of protection has to be considered. Could a “Breast Differentiation Pill” be developed to offer protection?
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Authors
F. de Waard, J.H.H. Thijssen,