Multifocal Breast Cancer in Young Women with Prolonged Contact between Their Breasts and Their Cellular Phones
Summary of Research Paper:
Four young women, all of whom regularly carried their smartphones directly against their breasts in their bras for up to 10 hours a day for several years, developed breast cancer. All presented with multifocal invasive breast cancer at the site where their phones were carried. Moreover, the shape of the tumor mimicked the shape of the cell phone they had carried in their bras.
All patients had no family history of breast cancer, tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2, and had no other known breast cancer risks. Their breast imaging was reviewed, showing clustering of multiple tumor foci in the breast directly under the area of cell phone contact. Pathology of all four cases shows striking similarity; all tumors are hormone-positive, low-intermediate grade, having an extensive intraductal component, and all tumors have near identical morphology.
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Authors: John G West, Nimmi S Kapoor, Shu-Yuan Liao, June W Chen, Lisa Bailey, Robert A Nagourney
2013