[Paracelsus] 'Oestrogen soup' linked to cancer (fwd)

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'Oestrogen soup' linked to cancer

16 July 2005

LONG-TERM exposure to oestrogen-like chemicals might increase the

risk of breast cancer in women with a genetic predisposition to the

disease. " For people who are susceptible, breast cancer might be sped

up, " says Baldwin of the University of Texas in El Paso.

For nine months his team fed a chemical called 4-nonylphenol, which

is found in drinking water, processed foods, plastics and paints, to

mice with a mutation that makes them susceptible to breast cancer.

Five out of the 13 mice fed a high dose of the substance developed

breast cancer, compared with none of the 14 fed a lower dose and only

one out of the 14 mice fed honey (Journal of Applied Toxicology, DOI:

10.10002/jat.1078).

" It was a little more potent than we thought, " says Baldwin. Although

the dose is probably higher than most people are exposed to, Baldwin

thinks that other environmental oestrogens, such as bisphenol A, are

likely to have a similar effect, so there is cause for concern about

their cumulative long-term effects. " We are exposed to a soup of

oestrogens, " he says.

From issue 2508 of New Scientist magazine, 16 July 2005, page 19

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725085.200

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