Plastics Chemical Might Promote Breast Cancer

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Hunt said the new study does provide "badly needed mechanistic data" on a suspect compound.

"There's a body of data that's out there suggesting [BPA] exerts a pretty powerful effect on a number of different tissues," she said. "There have been studies of the developing embryo, and studies looking at the development of prostate tissue. This provides a way of understanding how this chemical may exert its effect."

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