What is it about female breast tissue that makes it so prone to cancer?

Subject: What is it about female breast tissue that makes it so prone to cancer?

Date: Fri Oct 29 13:20:58 1999
Posted by Marcela
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Barrington State/Province: IL Country: usa
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 941217658.Me

Message:


What is so different about breast tissue that cancer seems to target that 
area on women? I know that men get it, too, but very infrequently. Why 
don't one out of 9 women get arm cancer, for example. Or leg cancer. Why 
is it BREAST cancer? What is it about a breast that "attracts" cancer?

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