Directory > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Secondhand Smoke > Health Risks > Breast Cancer Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Breast Cancer Characterizes the risk and provides a bibliography of research establishing the risk. http://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/breastcancer.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Active and Passive Cigarette Smoking and Breast Cancer Recent studies may explain inconsistencies between previous results, say researchers, and a real risk may be emerging. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_11_050600/burton/burton.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Is There An Association Between Passive Smoking and Breast Cancer? Scientific article; meta-analysis of 11 studies estimates a 40% higher risk of breast cancer as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11484800.... Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ask the Expert: Breast Cancer and Secondhand Smoke Summarizes the research findings on tobacco smoke as a cause of breast cancer. http://www.oncolink.com/templates/experts/article.cfm?c=3&s=13&ss=22&id=1179 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Health Canada - Breast cancer linked to second-hand smoke Summary of recent research based on data from 1994-1997. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/media/releases/2000/2000_26e.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Breast Cancer, Breast Feeding, and Tobacco Smoke Early studies treated secondhand smokers as if they were nonsmokers, which actually masked the evidence; later studies separated out the two, and found that both active and passive smoking are causes of breast cancer. http://www.nietrokers.nl/e/g02059.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Secondhand Smoke -- Dr. Greene.com Report on 1996 study: "the relative risk for breast cancer from passive smoke (primarily girls whose parent smoked or women whose spouse smoked) was 3.2! This makes passive smoking a more important risk factor than having a mother with breast cancer (2.1), or having an early first period (1.3), or having a late first pregnancy (1.4)." http://www.drgreene.com/html/21769.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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