Breast Cancer

Exposure to famine associated with increased cancer risk

Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 1st, 2004

Women who experienced a short but severe decrease in their food intake during the 1944-1945 Dutch famine have an increased risk of breast cancer compared with women whose caloric intake was not as greatly affected, study data reveal.

Several animal studies have found that reducing caloric intake by one-third to one-half for the animals' lifetime prevents various types of cancer, but the implications of short-term caloric restriction are largely unknown. Reproducing these types of studies in humans obviously raises ethical and practical issues.

During World War II, a famine in the western part of The Netherlands resulted from a food embargo imposed...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2004-05-01)

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