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Is it true that if breasts are shaken or moved to much it can cause cancer ?
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No. This myth: Dates back more than 50 years. Cancer occurs at the cellular level. Trauma may cause an existing cancer to bleed, the root of the myth, but it is not causative.
Answered 12/29/2014
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