Woman’s breast milk may provide clues to risk of Breast Cancer
At the latest studies researchers found out that a woman's breast milk may provide clues to her risk for developing breast cancer.
This study analyzed DNA from specific cells present in breast milk. The researchers found that there were more DNA modifications on certain genes inside these cells in breast tissue that turned cancerous compared to healthy tissue.
The researchers say that while the results are preliminary and need to be replicated in a larger group of women, they assume that breast milk could serve once as a screening tool to estimate risk of breast cancer. Approximately 80 percent of women give birth and could take such a test.
“Our test would be especially useful for women who become pregnant later in life because they are at a higher risk for breast cancer,” said study researcher Kathleen Arcaro, an associate professor of veterinary and animal sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Arkaro says, “We do not have any good methods to check up pregnant women for breast cancer. Mammograms don't diagnose breast cancer well in feeding women.”
Results of the research will be presented later in the American Association for Annual meeting of Researches of a cancer to Orlando, Florida.
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