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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.

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Answered 12/29/2014

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