Women's reproductive cancers in evolutionary context.
Q Rev Biol
; 69(3): 353-67, 1994 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-7972680
Reproductive experiences for women in today's affluent Western nations differ from those of women in hunting and gathering societies, who continue the ancestral human pattern. These differences parallel commonly accepted reproductive risk factors for cancers of the breast, endometrium and ovary. Nutritional practices, exercise requirements, and body composition are nonreproductive influences that have been proposed as additional factors affecting the incidence of women's cancers. In each case, these would further increase risk for women in industrialized countries relative to forager women. Lifestyles and reproductive patterns new from an evolutionary perspective may promote women's cancers. Calculations based on a theoretical model suggest that, to age 60, modern Western women have a breast cancer risk as much as 100 times that of preagricultural women.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Conducta Social
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Neoplasias de la Mama
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Evolución Biológica
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Neoplasias de los Genitales Femeninos
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Límite:
Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Q Rev Biol
Año:
1994
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos