Question

As the cancer expert in the Biology Department at your school, NBC news contacts you to discuss the effects of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure on cancer risk. The reporter is very interested as she has read several articles on this topic. In particular she wants you to explain the following:

she has read that a combination of BPA with a high fat diet increase the risk of the offspring developing cancer while intake of some natural products (e.g., curcumin) can reduce the risk developing BPA-associated cancers. Can you design an in vivo study looking at the actions of BPA alone or in combination with either high fat diet or curcumin on mammary tumors in mice ( paper in class presented on utero exposure may be helpful).

Answer 1