Low-fat Diet for Breast Cancer
Feb 10, 2010 in Diet and Nutrition, Tips and Guidelines
A study of 2400 post-menopausal women who have had breast cancer shows that a low-fat diet may help prevent the cancer from coming back.
The rate of recurrence after five years for the women who was put on a low-fat diet was 9.8%, while the rate for those ate a standard diet was 12.4%.
The most significant risk reduction — 42 percent — was with women on the low-fat diet whose tumors did not respond to the presence of the hormone estrogen (also called estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer). Women whose tumors did respond to estrogen saw a 15 percent reduction.
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