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 E-Mail A study of 44,541 women has found that there appears to be no association between type 2 diabetes and developing breast cancer overall. This may be because most women in the study with type 2 diabetes were taking metformin, a medication widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, whose actions may help to reduce the risk of developing oestrogen positive (ER-positive) breast cancer. ER-positive breast cancer (cancer that has receptors on cell surfaces for the hormone oestrogen) accounts for about 80% of breast cancer diagnosed in the USA. Associations uncovered in the study suggested that...

Dye but hair straightening. those chemicals increase the overall risk of 30%. before you stop buying your hair and everyone gets concerned let's pause for a second. everyone already had a family history of breast cancer. that is why does, sister study. that being said, there are 5000 chemicals used in hair products. we don't know which ones. several of them have endocrine districting factors which can lead to breast cancer but we don't know which one. it was hard to say what is happening. there is an association but we can't say what it is. jillian: a lot of studies need to be done. let's look...