Women who eat a fatty diet when pregnant could be increasing the risk of their daughters and granddaughters getting breast cancer.
Chronic exposure to hormone-like chemicals in food and drinking water may have a similar effect down the generations, new evidence suggests.
The findings, from a study of rats, could explain why breast cancer often runs in families even though known inherited genes account for only a small number of cases.
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