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Work Stress May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Researchers Say Risk Rises 30 Percent
POSTED: 1:07 pm PDT October 2,
2007
Women with demanding jobs were more likely to develop breast cancer in a 14-year Swedish study.The work with 36,000 Swedish women started in 1990 with volunteers taking a survey.By 2004, 767 of the women -- about 2 percent -- had been diagnosed with breast cancer.Researchers said they found that full-time working women in stressful jobs were 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer, but that there was no link between stress and breast cancer in part-time workers.
They said in a news release that stress may be linked to an increase in estrogen, which increases the risk of cancer.
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