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How many studies will it take to show women that the chemicals in our lives are *causing* the increase in breast cancer?
 

 
Bisphenol A (BPA) Found in plastics, water bottles, food packaging, plastic food storage containers, household plastic goods, the coating on the inside of canned goods, dust from the chemical leaching out of products and into air.
Bisphenol A induces a rapid activation of Erk1/2 through GPR30 in human breast cancer cells.
Epigenetic influences of low-dose bisphenol A in primary human breast epithelial cells.
Development and validation of a test for environmental estrogens: Checking xeno-estrogen activity by CXCL12 secretion in BREAST CANCER CELL LINES (CXCL-test).
Estrogen and xenoestrogens in breast cancer
The politics of plastics: the making and unmaking of bisphenol a "safety".
Effect-related monitoring: estrogen-like substances in groundwater.
The influence of endocrine disrupting chemicals on the proliferation of ERalpha knockdown-human breast cancer cell line MCF-7; new attempts by RNAi technology.
Bisphenol A at low nanomolar doses confers chemoresistance in estrogen receptor-alpha-positive and -negative breast cancer cells.
Policy and research recommendations emerging from the scientific evidence connecting environmental factors and breast cancer.
Bisphenol A at environmentally relevant doses inhibits adiponectin release from human adipose tissue explants and adipocytes.
Effects of bisphenol A on breast cancer and its risk factors.
Bisphenol A induces a profile of tumor aggressiveness in high-risk cells from breast cancer patients.
Xenoestrogens modulate vascular endothelial growth factor secretion in breast cancer cells through an estrogen receptor-dependent mechanism.
Does breast cancer start in the womb?
Effect of prenatal exposure to the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A on mammary gland morphology and gene expression signature.
Maternal nutrient supplementation counteracts bisphenol A-induced DNA hypomethylation in early development.
Mixture effects of estrogenic compounds on proliferation and pS2 expression of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
prenatal bisphenol A exposure induces preneoplastic lesions in the mammary gland in Wistar rats.
Effect of royal jelly on bisphenol A-induced proliferation of human breast cancer cells.
Induction of mammary gland ductal hyperplasias and carcinoma in situ following fetal bisphenol A exposure.
A role for sulfation-desulfation in the uptake of bisphenol a into breast tumor cells.
Endocrine disruptors and reproductive health: the case of bisphenol-A.
Detection of estrogenic effects of nonylphenol and bisphenol A in vitro reporter gene-based assays
Gene expression profiling reveals novel regulation by bisphenol-A in estrogen receptor-alpha-positive human cells.
Bisphenol A in ambient air particulates responsible for the proliferation of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells and Its concentration changes over 6 months.
Comparative study of the endocrine-disrupting activity of bisphenol A and 19 related compounds.
Bisphenol-A and estradiol exert novel gene regulation in human MCF-7 derived breast cancer cells.

Phthalates Found in plastics, vinyl, synthetic fragrances, soaps, shampoos, cleaning products, air 'fresheners', deodorant, plastic food storage bags, shower curtains, dust, and more...
Exposure to phthalates and breast cancer risk in northern Mexico.
Deciphering diseases and biological targets for environmental chemicals using toxicogenomics networks.
Investigation of relationships between urinary biomarkers of phytoestrogens, phthalates, and phenols and pubertal stages in girls.
Estrogen and xenoestrogens in breast cancer.
Effect-related monitoring: estrogen-like substances in groundwater.
Xenoestrogens modulate vascular endothelial growth factor secretion in breast cancer cells through an estrogen receptor-dependent mechanism.
The plasticizer butyl benzyl phthalate induces genomic changes in rat mammary gland after neonatal/prepubertal exposure.
Mixture effects of estrogenic compounds on proliferation and pS2 expression of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
The concept of endocrine disruption and human health
Application of ozone, UV and ozone/UV processes to reduce diethyl phthalate and its estrogenic activity.
DNA methylation of estrogen receptor alpha gene by phthalates.
Mono(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate and mono-n-butyl phthalate activation of peroxisome proliferator activated-receptors alpha and gamma in breast.
Phthalates inhibit tamoxifen-induced apoptosis in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
Effects of phytoestrogens and environmental estrogens on osteoblastic differentiation in MC3T3-E1 cells.
Effects of environmental estrogens on apoptosis induced by estrogen depletion in T47D cells
Estimation of estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activities of some phthalate diesters and monoesters by MCF-7 cell proliferation assay in vitro.
The effects of three plastic additives on the proliferation of MCF-7 cell
Full activation of estrogen receptor alpha activation function-1 induces proliferation of breast cancer cells.
Estrogenic activity of some environmental chemicals
Estrogenic activity of tissue conditioners in vitro.
 
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