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Published online 26 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050926-3
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Left-handers face greater cancer risk
Exposure to chemicals in the womb may explain link.
Left-handed women face double the risk of developing breast cancer before the menopause compared with right-handed women, according to a new study.
This sounds like a strange coincidence.
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