{"id":6265,"date":"2019-10-04T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:33:37","slug":"can-herbicides-cause-breast-cancer-scientists-discover-a-piece-to-the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/can-herbicides-cause-breast-cancer-scientists-discover-a-piece-to-the-puzzle.php","title":{"rendered":"Can herbicides cause breast cancer? Scientists discover a piece to the puzzle."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie A. Leli\u00e8vre, DVM, PhD, LLM (Public Health)\nProfessor of Cancer Pharmacology\" class=\"wp-image-6268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre-353x235.jpg 353w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sophie-lelievre.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Sophie A. Leli\u00e8vre, DVM, PhD, LLM (Public Health)<br>Professor of Cancer Pharmacology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists know that the solution to preventing breast cancer won&#8217;t come  easily, but a collaborative team of scientists at Purdue University and  the Institut National de la Sant\u00e9 et de la Recherche M\u00e9dicale  (INSERM)\/Institut de Canc\u00e9rologie de L&#8217;Ouest (ICO) in Nantes, France,  say they&#8217;ve recently discovered one of the missing pieces of the puzzle  when it comes to cancer prevention.                                                  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a major result and nobody has ever shown this before,&#8221; says  Sophie Leli\u00e8vre,  a professor of cancer pharmacology in Purdue&#8217;s College  of Veterinary Medicine and co-leader of IBCN. &#8220;Showing that glyphosate  can trigger tumor growth,  when combined with another frequently observed risk, is an important  missing link when it comes to determining what causes cancer. &#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Can herbicides cause breast cancer? Scientists discover a piece to the puzzle (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-10-herbicides-breast-cancer-scientists-piece.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can herbicides cause breast cancer? Scientists discover a piece to the puzzle<\/a> on MedicalExpress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists know that the solution to preventing breast cancer won&#8217;t come easily, but a collaborative team of scientists at Purdue University and the Institut National de la Sant\u00e9 et de la Recherche M\u00e9dicale (INSERM)\/Institut de Canc\u00e9rologie de L&#8217;Ouest (ICO) in Nantes, France, say they&#8217;ve recently discovered one of the missing pieces of the puzzle when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,17,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer","category-faculty-staff","category-in-the-news","category-our-people","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}