A 1976 industrial explosion in Seveso, Italy, that spewed dioxin has just been linked to increased incidence of breast cancer. Among women who had lived nearest to the accident site, each 10-fold increase in dioxin exposure–as measured by the carcinogen’s concentration in blood soon after the accident–appears to double breast cancer risk.
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