Have Dense Breasts? They May Be Drivers for Cancer
Researchers are closer than ever to figuring out why women with dense breast tissue may be more prone to developing breast cancer. According to Medical News Today, "s cientists at the University of Manchester in the UK think that a key biological mechanism may explain for the first time why women with dense breast tissue have an increased risk of developing breast cancer." Prof. Michael Lisanti, from the University of Manchester worked on the study, which looked at targeting not cells but the fibrotic connective tissue that may develop first, before a woman develops cancer. He explains, "We know that high breast density can greatly increase a woman's breast cancer risk as well as other factors such as aging, family history and presence of mutations in genes such as BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.
What no one has fully appreciated before are the underpinning mechanisms at play," Lisanti adds. "Using a bioinformatics approach, we have identified the relevant s...