News Finding: If you're drinking from a water bottle or eating from a plastic container, chances are you're consuming it right now.
Paper Finding: As previously observed (28), progressive malignancy incidence was noted over time with highest HG-PIN and cancer incidence present at 4 months.
News Context: "Our research provides the first direct evidence that exposure to BPA during development, at the levels we see in our day-to-day lives, increases the risk for prostate cancer in human prostate tissue," Gail Prins, a professor of physiology and lead author of the paper, said in a press release. If you're drinking from a water bottle or eating from a plastic container, chances are you're consuming it right now. According to the study authors, avoiding the chemical altogether is a next-to impossible feat.
Paper Context: Together, these results document that levels of bioactive BPA in the present study are similar to levels found in human umbilical cord blood and newborns in the general population . As previously observed (28), progressive malignancy incidence was noted over time with highest HG-PIN and cancer incidence present at 4 months. Examples of HG-PIN and prostate adenocarcinoma as well as benign lesions of hyperplasia and SQM are shown in Fig 5 with PSA immunostaining to confirm their human origin and lack of basal cell staining to confirm carcinoma.