Living near Superfund sites raises women’s risk of metastatic breast cancer, reveals study A University of Miami study found that women living near NPL Superfund sites had about a 29–30 percent higher probability of presenting with metastatic breast cancer, even after adjusting for demographics and income. The analysis covered 21,505 breast cancer cases in Florida from 2015 to 2019, comparing those in census tracts with ?1 Superfund site to those without. Hazardous chemicals common in Superfund sites—such as benzene, heavy metals, PCBs and PAHs—are thought to act as endocrine disruptors, entering the body via groundwater or soil and accumulating in fat?rich…

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