Study Describes Mechanism Linking Alcohol with Risk of Breast Cancer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
The known association of alcohol consumption with an increased risk of breast cancer has been linked by researchers at the University at Buffalo to a process that causes genes that promote normal cell growth to produce proteins that precipitate unregulated cell growth, an action known as hypermethylation.
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