date:May 10, 2012
mmary gland development, leading to pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions when the animals reach adult age.
They added they were confident the rodent mammary gland was a reliable model to study developmental exposures to chemicals like BPA that disrupt a mammals estrogen activity and showed that foetal exposure could lead to mammary cancer later in life.
Because BPA is chemically related to diethylstilbestrol, an estrogen that increased the risk of breast cancer in both rodents and women expos