Drinking may increase breast cancer risk in girls with family history of disease
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The researchers analyzed data that included girls aged 9 to 15 years. The subjects answered questionnaires - providing data on alcohol consumption, body mass index and age of first menses - every year from 1996 to 2001, then every other year until 2007. The scientists also collected information on the girls' family history of breast cancer and benign breast disease, which is a risk factor for the other condition.
Results showed that girls whose mothers or aunts had benign breast disease had more than double the risk of developing the condition themselves as young women, compared to subjects with no family history.
Furthermore, girls whose relatives had benign breast disease increased the likelihood that they would get it by drinking alcohol, as published in the journal Cancer.
"Our study suggests that adolescent females already at higher risk for breast cancer, in light of their family history, should be aware that avoiding alcohol may reduce their risk for benign breast disease as young women, which might be accompanied by reduced breast cancer risk later in life," said researcher Catherine Berkey.
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