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Article: Low-fat diet prevents breast cancer recurrence.
- Article from:
- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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For years, researchers have studied and debated a possible link between fat intake and breast cancer. For a while, experts accepted as fact that a high-fat intake increased the risk of breast cancer. Then came disappointing research results that caused nutritionists to back away from the fat-breast cancer link. Now, for the first time, a large clinical trial has found that women who cut the fat in their diets following standard treatment for early breast cancer significantly reduced their risk of recurrent cancer.
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