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Breast Cancer
Research add new data to breast cancer body of knowledge
June 23rd, 2005
New findings from the United States and Japan describe advances in breast cancer. Study 1: The effects of dietary flavonols on breast cancer risk are unclear. Some flavonol-rich foods appear to have an inverse association, some have none, is what nutritionists can say thus far. "Laboratory and animal studies suggest that dietary flavonols may reduce breast cancer risk but there are limited epidemiological studies. We computed flavonol intakes from dietary data collected by validated food frequency questionnaires in 1991 and 1995 from 90,630 women in the Nurses Health Study II. Using multivariate relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-23)
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