The
NY Times health section reported this (if prompted, username "Ihate", password "passwords").
This was a meta study of 10,000 adult women in the state of Washington, including 2,266 who had been diagnosed with cancer.
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Those who had more than 25 prescriptions over an average of 17 years were twice as likely to get the disease.
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Considering the prevelance of breast cancer, this is not a trivial issue. If your wife is like mine, running to the doctor for a prescription every time she gets a cold, this article might give her second thoughts.
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