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Article: Vitamins and breast cancer: confusion still reigns by Mark Greener.
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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There is now little doubt that diet influences the risk of developing breast cancer, and saturated fat is, perhaps, the best established dietary risk factor. However, while epidemiological studies suggest that a healthy diet can protect against the disease, much of the evidence seems confused; for example, antioxidant vitamins seem to be inactive, cabbages may increase the risk while onions, garlic and even stock cubes cut the likelihood of developing the cancer, according to one recent paper.
The French case-control study (Eur J Epidem 1998;14:737-47) examined the role of diet in 345 patients diagnosed with primary breast cancer between 1986 and 1989 in the ...