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Jump to full article: Electronic Telegraph (uk), 2002-10-04
Author: David Derbyshire, Medical Correspondent
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This study suggests an increased risk of breast cancer for women who smoke in their teens and a decreased risk of the disease for women who take up smoking later in life, after their first pregnancy. Both of these could be chance findings. The effect of smoking on the risks of heart disease, respiratory disorders, lung and other cancers by far outweighs any possible protective effect.
Dr Stephen Duffy, of Cancer Research UK, on the breast cancer study reported in Lancet.
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