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Plastics Chemical Might Promote Breast CancerScientists spot mechanism allowing bisphenol-A to concentrate in tumor cells By E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A chemical found in the harder plastics that make up CD cases, water-cooler jugs and other objects people handle might help promote breast cancer, researchers say. The chemical -- a "pseudo-estrogen" called bisphenol-A -- appears to be preferentially absorbed by breast tumor cells, according to a new study published in the Aug. 28 issue of Chemistry & Biology. http://www.healthday.com/view.cfm?id=534580 "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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