Women advised to avoid ZEN bust-enhancing supplements because of possible cancer risk

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Women who use bust-enhancing dietary supplements containing the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEN), a naturally occurring toxin that widely contaminates agricultural products, could be increasing their risk of breast cancer. That is the warning from breast health experts in a paper published online ahead of print publication in the January issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

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