High Fat Intake, Associated to Increased Breast Cancer Risk
A National Cancer Institute-led study concluded that in take of a high fat diet may lead to an increased risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
The researchers found that doubling fat intake, from 20 percent to 40 percent, was associated with a 15 percent increase in breast cancer risk.
The increase in risk was similar for all types of fat—saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.
Such were the findings reported in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In the past, environmental and animal studies have suggested that increased fat consumption is associated with cancer development. However, epidemiologic studies on the matter turned out inconclusive.
Findings in this new study (led by Anne Thiébaut, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md.) were derived from 188,736 postmenopausal women and their fat consumption.
Read the full report at JNCI and at Science Daily.
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Mar 26, 2007 at 8:34 am
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