Chemical in Plastics Alters Genes to Develop Prostate Cancer, According to Animal Study
Bisphenol A. or BPA is a widespread industrial compound used in the manufacture of hard, polycarbonate plastic for baby bottles, microwave cookware and other consumer goods. Exposure to this chemical that leaks from plastic causes genetic changes in animals’ developing prostate glands that are precursors of the most common form of cancer in males.
Scientists and health experts have theorized for more than a decade that chemicals in the environment and in consumer products mimic estrogens and may be contributing to male and female reproductive diseases, particularly prostate cancer.
The new study conducted on rats by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Cincinnati suggests that prostate cancer, which usually strikes men over 50, may develop when BPA and other estrogen-like, man-made chemicals pass through a pregnant woman’s womb and alter the genes of a growing prostate in the fetus.
Read the full report on LA Times and the UIC press release.
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