Childhood body size affects future breast cancer chances

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 18:14 in Health & Medicine

Thinner girls may be at higher risk of breast cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research found that girls who were leaner at age seven were at higher risk of cancer later in life.

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