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Article: TEEN SMOKING LINKED TO BREAST CANCER
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- United Press International
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- October 3, 2002
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Teen smoking linked to breast cancer
QUEBEC, Oct 03, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Girls
who start smoking within five years of beginning menstruation could
face a significantly higher risk of breast cancer later in life, according
to a study released Thursday.
Researchers led by Quebec scientist Pierre Band of Health Canada,
the country's federal health department, compared a group of women
in British Columbia. They sent questionnaires and got replies from
318 breast cancer patients younger than 75 who were listed in a cancer
registry between 1988 and 1989. They also heard from 340 women who
did not have breast cancer.
Their analysis, reported in ...