Breast cancer etiology may vary by subtype

Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 19:28 in Health & Medicine

Women's reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases, presented in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research, suggests that traditional risk factors for development of the condition are associated with different kinds of tumor.

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