Breast Cancer
Large, long-term study looks at dietary risk factors in postmenopausal women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 29th, 2004
I. Mattisson and colleagues working on the MDC Study reported these findings in the International Journal of Cancer (High fat and alcohol intakes are risk factors of postmenopausal breast cancer: A prospective study from the Malmo diet and cancer cohort. Int J Cancer, 2004;110(4):589-597).
"Associations between intakes of relative fat, total alcohol, and alcoholic beverages and risk of breast cancer were examined in a subsample of 11,726 postmenopausal women...
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