(CBS News) Next time you're eating, you might want to skip the cadmium-heavy foods. A new study says consuming too much cadmium may increase a woman's chances to get breast cancer. What's cadmium?

Ingesting higher levels of cadmium, a metal found in fertilizers, may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a new study from Sweden suggests. The results showed that postmenopausal women ...

In a finding that strengthens the link between environmental pollutants and rising rates of breast cancer, new research finds that women whose diets contain higher levels of cadmium are at greater ...

MILWAUKEE – In an intriguing finding, researchers have shown that high levels of cadmium in the body double the risk for development of breast cancer among women. The results mark the first time the ...

Ingesting higher levels of cadmium, a metal found in fertilizers, may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a new study from Sweden suggests. The results showed that postmenopausal women ...

A naturally present white metal, cadmium already is listed in the federal Report on Human Carcinogens as a "known human carcinogen" and has long been known to cause human lung cancer in ...

Washington, D.C. – For the first time, there is scientific evidence that exposure to cadmium, a naturally occurring metal, may be a direct risk factor for developing breast cancer in a woman and her ...

Cadmium consumption was divided into three groups with the highest levels of exposure compared with the lowest. Overall, a higher exposure to cadmium via diet was linked with a 21 percent increase in ...

The proposed cadmium-induced oestrogen mimicking effects in reproductive tissues, suggest a role of this widespread food contaminant in the development of hormone-dependent malignancies. During a mean ...

Women with high levels of cadmium exposure appeared to have increased risk for endometrial cancer, according to a population-based, case-control study published in PLOS One. “More than 31,000 new ...