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# KFC helps fight breast cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/kfc_donates_money_to_fight_breast_cancer_2604100735/
- Published: 2010-04-26T07:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:56:29.000Z
- Description: KFC gives Susan G. Komen 50 cents per pink bucket and has raised $2 million toward an $8 million goal. Harvard's Walter Willett says there is no direct link between fried chicken and breast cancer, though fatty food drives weight gain and fried meat carries heterocyclic amines.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, Chicken, Breast Cancer, #vivvo-import

Kentucky Fried Chicken is helping the prominent breast cancer advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure to raise funds to fight breast cancer, ABC News reported.

For the campaign, The KFC is said to donate 50 cents to the breast cancer organization for each pink bucket of fried chicken purchased.

In the first week, the campaign has already raised $2 million. The goal is to raise a total of $8 millions.

ABC News cited some experts as saying there is an association between eating fatty high caloric food and the risk for breast cancer.

But there is no direct association between eating fried children and breast cancer, ABC News cited Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health as saying.

But eating too much fatty food including meat is associated with increased body weight, which is definitely linked to increased risk of breast cancer.

Fried meat can contain some cancer-causing heterocyclic amines or HAs and experimental studies suggest these chemicals are implicated in human breast cancer.

Snyderwine EG published an article in the Aug 1 1994 issue of Cancer reporting that hetercyclic amines can be found in meats such as beef, chicken, pork, and fish cooked by ordinary metods at parts per billion levels.

2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo \[4,5-b\]pyridine (PhIP) is the most commonly seen hetercyclic amine found in fried and barbecued beef, a staple of the American diet. 

Chronic administration of PhIP in the rat diet has been shown to cause mammary gland cancer.

Two other food-derived HAs, 2-amino-3-methylimidazo\[4,5-f\]quinoline and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo\[4,5-f\]quinoline, are found to be able to cause mammary cancer in rodent models. 

Studies also revealed that humans can activate HAs metabolically. Because of this, the experimental evidence suggests that the meat-derived HAs may be etiologic agents in human breast cancer. 

DL