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Breast Cancer
Effect of folate intake on breast cancer risk evaluated
October 13th, 2005
The effect of folate intake on breast cancer risk was evaluated in a recent study. "Folate plays an important role in DNA methylation, and aberrant methylation of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene may be related to the loss of ER gene expression in breast tumors," scientists writing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention report. "Thus, deficient folate status has been hypothesized to be associated primarily with ER gene-negative breast tumors, but data relating folate intake to breast cancer risk according to ER status are sparse." S. M. Zhang and colleagues "conducted a prospective cohort analysis of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-13)
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