Breast Cancer Risk Signalled By Wet Ear Wax And Unpleasant Body Odors

If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn’t bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing these cosmetic calamities. That’s because they’ve found that a gene responsible for breast cancer causes these physical symptoms. The report describing this finding is featured on the cover of The FASEB Journal’s June 2009 print issue, and should arm physicians with another clue for detecting breast cancer risk.

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Filed under: Breast Cancer on June 4th, 2009