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Healthy Heart Lifestyle Reduces Cancer Risk
People who follow the American Heart Association’s heart health guidelines have a 51% lower risk of developing cancer than people who don’t follow those guidelines.
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Smoking Linked to Higher Risk of Breast Cancer
A large study has found that smoking increases breast cancer risk in women, especially women who start smoking before they have their first child.
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Long-Term Smoking Increases Risk in High-Risk Women
A very large research study strongly suggests that smoking for a long time dramatically increases breast cancer risk in women with a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer.
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Smoking Increases Breast Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Cigarette smoking — either past or present — and exposure to second-hand smoke increase breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
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Long-Term Smoking Increases Breast Cancer Risk
A very large study found that women who started smoking heavily at an early age and smoked for a long time had a 25% higher risk of breast cancer.
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Heavy Second-Hand Smoke Exposure May Increase Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Second-hand smoke seems to have the greatest effect on breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women with heavy second-hand smoke exposure as children.
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Obesity, Smoking, Drinking Linked to Risk of Second Breast Cancer
Obesity, smoking, and drinking alcohol all increase the risk of breast cancer being diagnosed a second time in women previously diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive disease.
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Smoking and Secondhand Smoke Raise Risk
A new meta-analysis confirms a link between both smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke and an increase in breast cancer risk.
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Lab Study Suggests Second-Hand Smoke Ups Risk
Exposure to nicotine from cigarettes you smoke as well from second-hand smoke from other people's cigarettes seems to make breast cancer cells grow and spread.
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Breast Cancer Risk Higher in Smokers with Slow-Acting NAT2 Gene
Smoking can increase breast cancer risk in women with a slowing-acting form of the gene NAT2, which is fairly common in white and African American women.
