Breast Cancer: Risk Increases For Smokers And Overweight Women

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 23:14 in Health & Medicine

A recent study has reinforced the correlation between being overweight, smoking and breast cancer. What makes this study unique is how test subjects were not diagnosed for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which predispose women to breast cancer.

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