Reversed cerebral asymmetry in women with breast cancer

Sandson TA, Wen PY, Lemay M

1992

Boston, USA

The authors investigated CT scans of 79 right handed white patients with breast cancer and 97 controls to assess the pattern of cerebral asymmetry. Women with breast cancer had a reversed pattern of cerebral asymmetry significantly more often than did controls for both frontal and occipital width.

This is one of the many studies suggesting that an intrauterine factor, probably hormonal, could predispose to breast cancer in adulthood. See entries 0026,0068, 0071, 0194,0211 and 0283.