Environment and Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a complex disease caused by multiple environmental and lifestyle factors. This book examines the environmental factors related to breast cancer from an epidemiological, experimental and translational research perspective.

Among the first books to Discuss environmental factors of breast cancer Addresses breast cancer environment comprehensively from epidemiological, experimental, and translational research perspective Includes recognized experts in the field of breast biology and cancer with special interests in environmental issues

Autorentext
Jose Russo, MD, FACP is a Professor, Senior Member, and Director of the Breast Cancer Research Laboratory and the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Inhalt
Epidemiologic basis of the role of environmental endocrine disruptors and breast cancer.- The windows of susceptibility and breast cancer risk.- The puberty as a window of risk for exposure to environmental agents and its effect in breast development.- Early life exposure Bisphenol A and breast Neoplasia.- Genomic changes induced by endocrine disruptors in the mammary gland.- Proteomic basis for the increase susceptibility of the mammary gland to carcinogenesis after prepubertal exposure to Bisphenol A.- Dioxin as an environmental pollutants and its role in breast cancer.- Effect of Exposure to Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in the mammary Gland.- The effect of radiation in the mammary gland biology and cancer.- Diet as an environmental stressor in the mammary gland.