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Article: Low-fat diet reduces breast cancer recurrence.(News)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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ORLANDO, FLA. -- Breast cancer survivors on a low-fat diet had their rate of recurrence reduced by 24% in what may be the first phase III trial to show that a lifestyle change can protect cancer patients from relapse.
In a study with a median of 5 years of follow-up, investigator Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., determined the disease had recurred in 12.4% of postmenopausal women on a standard diet but only 9.8% of those on the low-fat regimen.
The protective effect was stronger in women who had estrogen receptor-negative tumors, he reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Although patients with such tumors have an elevated ...