What is it about?
Reviews evidence about DDT and breast cancer and discusses the importance of including information on exposure that happens before birth through puberty.
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Why is it important?
Studies that do not look at exposure when the breast is highly vulnerable, in early life can miss important relationships and could lead to incorrect conclusions about safety.
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This paper was challenging to write but very rewarding. it gave me the chance to put together information that had appeared in many places to help us understand why it is important to try to learn how things that happen in early life can influence a woman's risk of breast cancer many years later.
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Devlelopment Studies, Public Health Institute
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This page is a summary of: Developmental and environmental origins of breast cancer: DDT as a case study, Reproductive Toxicology, April 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.10.004.
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