Environmental Pesticides and Heavy Metals — Role in Breast Cancer

摘要: The intent of this chapter is to provide an overview the current thoughts and ideals regarding involvement pesticides heavy metals in progress breast cancer. history encompasses a few millennia, but our understanding pesticide action health consequences has only begun develop last 30-40 years. Interestingly, many these have estrogen-like activity may be involved development A new category compounds been identified studied 30 years, ‘metalloestrogens’. Heavy metals, such as cadmium, which estrogen like will discussed. Finally, we attempt pull together actions metalloestrogens possible synergistic mechanism by toxins work promote cancer development.