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Article: Scientists Find No Link Between Fat, Breast Cancer
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 8, 1996
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NEW YORK Adopting a low-fat diet at midlife or later probably
won't reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.
Pooling and analyzing the results of seven previous studies
involving 337,819 women, mostly middle-age or older, scientists found
that the amount of fat in the participants' diets had no effect on
their risk of breast cancer.
The analysis is being published today in the New England Journal
of Medicine.
The researchers in the earlier studies didn't find out how long
the women had been on their diets, so the results don't rule out the
possibility that women who have avoided fat for most of their lives
run a lower breast cancer risk.
Other studies suggest that ...