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Mechanisms underlying the effect of adiposity on risk of post-menopausal oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: an interventional mediation analysis
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Medicine · Public Health · Breast Cancer Prevention
Discovery of the day
This interventional mediation analysis reveals that inflammation and sex-steroid hormones, but not insulin, mediate the detrimental effect of obesity on post-menopausal oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer risk. Using data from 1,260 post-menopausal women in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, the researchers demonstrated that shifting inflammation and sex-steroid biomarker levels in females with obesity to those observed in normal-weight females could reduce breast cancer risk by approximately 29 cases per 1,000. For a professional focused on chronic disease prevention, this finding identifies specific, targetable biological pathways—potentially amenable to behavioral and pharmacological interventions—that could inform future prevention strategies for at-risk post-menopausal women.
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