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Girls' Cancer Treatments Hike Breast Cancer Risk

...by as much as 7 times

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 4, 2012 12:41 PM CDT

(Newser) – The powerful therapies used to treat cancer in girls drastically increase their odds of suffering breast cancer as adults—by as much as six or seven times, a study finds. For most women, the odds of getting breast cancer by age 50 are about 4%....   Read full story »

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