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Health

Running head : BREAST CANCER

Research on breast cancer

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Breast cancer

The article `DDT and breast cancer in young women : new data on the significance of age at exposure ' is a study conducted by Barbara A Cohn , Mary S . Wolff , Piera M . Cirillo and Robert I . Sholtz . This study sought to identify whether exposing young women to DDT when the DDT is at peak is likely to result to development of breast cancer

Cohn et al (2007 ) conducted this study prospectively using a

br nested-control approach . The sample constituted of women who were participating in the Child Health and Development Studies (CDHS ) in Oakland , California . These women were members of the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and had gone for obstetric services between 1959 and 1967 (this time spans the period prior to banning of DDT use and a period when DDT use was very high . Selection of the subjects adhered to ethical guidelines including informed participant 's consent as required of human participants in research studies

To identify breast cancer cases , the authors of this study , the California Cancer registry and California Vital Status Records were referred and 133 cases of breast cancer patients or person who died of breast cancer prior to reaching the age of 50 years were identified for the study . After assaying blood samples collected from the women within three days after giving birth , it was identified that 129 cases had breast cancer prior to reaching the age of 50 years . By selecting...

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