Breast Cancer

Research methods could mask association with high fat intake

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 5th, 2003

Imprecise methods of assessing dietary intake could be potentially obscuring a link between increased fat intake and breast cancer, suggest authors of a research letter in the July 18, 2003, issue of the Lancet.

Results of studies in which biological markers have been used as the reference method for assessment of dietary intake for selected nutrients suggest that the degree of error associated with food-frequency questionnaires (FFQs) is considerably larger than previously estimated. This could explain the lack of an association between increased fat intake and breast cancer in population studies.

Sheila Bingham from the MRC Dunn Human...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-08-05)

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