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Breast Cancer, Mercury and Other Toxic Metals

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Summary: 

Mercuric chloride exerts an estrogenic effect through binding to the estrogen receptor that can cause human breast cancer cells to proliferate. The heavy metals iron, nickel, chromium, zinc, cadmium, mercury, and lead were found to be higher in human breast cancer tumour samples than in benign breast tissue, suggesting that heavy metals are related to malignancy. Mercury chloride can stimulate the growth of MCF-7 breast cancer cells, while chromium chloride, chromium trioxide and manganese sulfate can not. Other metals that bind to estrogen receptors to exert an estrogenic effect are copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and tin.

  • Experimental study on the estrogen-like effect of mercuric chloride.
  • Increased levels of transition metals in breast cancer tissue.
  • Experiment study on the estrogen-like effect of compounds of mercury, chromium and manganese
  • Methyl mercury influences growth-related signaling in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
  • Estrogen-like activity of metals in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.