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Article: Study: High-fat diet might increase breast cancer risk
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 18, 2003
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LONDON -- A new study reopens the question, long dismissed by
researchers, of whether women who eat high-fat diets increase their
risk of breast cancer.
The study found that those who average more than 90 grams of fat a
day have roughly double the risk of those who eat 37 grams.
However, the finding is likely to be controversial, since it
contradicts many large, careful studies that found no link between
what women eat and their risk of this cancer.
The study, published in this week's Lancet medical journal, was
conducted at Cambridge University in England and involved 13,070
women who kept diet records from 1993-97.
The researchers set out to discover whether the reason the
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