Does professional counseling improve infant home monitoring?
Intensive counseling leads to a better use of home monitoring and reduces parents' stress. Even if home monitoring is used less frequently today, families should still be instructed and counselled intensively.
Certain factors related to hormonal exposure that influence breast tumor etiology, for example, age, also appear to increase tumor growth. Conversely HRT use, which clearly increases breast cancer risk, may not adversely affect, and possibly may diminish cell proliferation once tumors are established.