Girls with family history of breast disease should avoid alcohol
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 04:31
in Health & Medicine
Adding to research linking alcohol to breast cancer risk, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that adolescent girls with a family history of breast disease either cancer or the benign lesions that can become cancer have a higher risk of developing benign breast disease as young women than other girls. And unlike girls without a family history, this already-elevated risk rises with increasing alcohol consumption.