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| Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| BPA Bottle Plastic May Cause Cancer and Block Chemotherapy |
There’s been plenty of questioning reports in the media about the health hazards of bisphenol A or BPA plastic used for drinking bottles and in the lining of food cans. A new study suggests one more snag in the man-made material: It might block the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients.
The research, published in the most recent issue of the medical journal Environmental Health Perspectives, adds to the high suspicion that BPA is already involved in cancer developing in the body. BPA is documented as similar in chemical structure to the cancer-promoting agent diethystilbesytrol or DES.
Short science lesson: DES causes cancer cells to multiply, while it appears that BPA acts to protect existing cancer cells from damage in a sort of same-chemical-family way. In the case of chemotherapy, the BPA calls for additional proteins that in turn neutralize chemotherapy medications. University of Cincinnati researchers discovered this dastardly symbiosis in lab tests.
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