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Those Plastic Bottles May Increase Your Risk of Prostate Cancer

  • January 04, 2005

You may recall an article I posted about the dangers of bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogen-like compound used to make common plastic food containers and baby bottles and to line tin cans. New research has found BPA stimulates the growth of a specific category of prostate cancer cell, potentially affecting the treatment efficacy for a subset of prostate cancers. Specifically, the affected class of prostate cancer cell, characterized by mutated receptors for androgens (the male hormone), can...