An Indian study in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention measured plasma antioxidants in 225 women and found higher beta-carotene, vitamin E and vitamin C accompanying significantly lower breast cancer risk. Higher vitamin A levels went the other way, tracking with higher risk.
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Choline, betaine may cut breast cancer death risk
Tracking 1,508 breast cancer patients on Long Island, researchers report in FASEB Journal that higher choline and betaine intake accompanied lower all-cause and breast cancer death in dose-dependent fashion. They call the nutrients a promising prevention strategy.
Cancer
How Does Induced Abortion Raise Breast Cancer Risk?
Surgeon Angela Lanfranchi contributes a piece arguing that growing evidence ties induced abortion, though not miscarriage, to higher breast cancer risk. She stresses it is one factor among many: most women with breast cancer never had an abortion, and most who have had one never get it.
Lifestyle
Who says breast cancer patients should avoid pregnancy?
A meta-analysis of 14 studies covering 1,244 cases and 18,145 controls found women who became pregnant after a breast cancer diagnosis were 41 percent less likely to die of the disease, leading the authors to conclude pregnancy does not compromise survival.
Disease
Pink news: Antibiotic use linked to breast cancer
A meta-analysis in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety pooled five case-control studies covering 13,069 cases and 73,920 controls and found women who had ever taken antibiotics were 17.5 percent more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, with a borderline dose-response effect.
Lifestyle
Physical Activity cuts breast cancer risk even in BRCA mutation carriers
Among 725 BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, self-reported lifetime sports activity was tied to a 16 percent lower breast cancer risk, a reduction the authors called statistically insignificant; those averaging 11 to 22.7 MET hours a week had a 41 percent lower risk.
Disease
Pink News: Reproductive factors linked to breast cancer
An Iranian case-control study of 100 patients and 200 controls found later first pregnancy and abortion accompanying 310 and 193 percent higher breast cancer risk, while five or more births went with 91 percent lower risk. A Sri Lankan study tied longer breastfeeding to lower risk.
Vitamins
Vitamin D helps prevent breast cancer
A German Cancer Research Center meta-analysis of ten studies found each 20 ng/mL rise in serum vitamin D accompanying 41 percent lower breast cancer risk in case-control studies and 8 percent in nested case-control studies. A Shanghai team's meta-analysis reached a similar conclusion.
Food
Pink News: Fish oil prevents breast cancer
Following 35,000 women aged 50 to 76, Fred Hutchinson researchers found current fish oil use accompanying 32 percent lower breast cancer risk. The drop showed only for ductal tumours; black cohosh, dong quai, soy and St. John's wort showed no link.
Obesity
Pink News: Alcohol Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Alcohol makers are attaching pink ribbons to vodka, liqueurs and pink wines during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, though the National Toxicology Program lists alcoholic drinks as carcinogens. A study of 1,897 women ties drinking to recurrence, especially in postmenopausal and obese patients.
Phytochemicals
Pink news: Soy protein cuts risk of breast cancer death
Among 5,042 Chinese breast cancer survivors followed about four years, women with the highest soy protein intake were 29 percent less likely to die and 32 percent less likely to suffer a recurrence than those eating the least, a JAMA study reports.
Drug
Pink News: Mammogram Screening Works for Women Ages 40-49
A Swedish study in Cancer compared women aged 40 to 49 invited to mammography screening with those who were not, between 1986 and 2005, and found fewer breast cancer deaths among those screened. An editor's note calls screening in this age group a contested question among experts.
Vitamins
Pink News: Aggressive Breast Cancer Linked To Vitamin D Deficiency
Researchers led by Susan Steck followed 107 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the previous five years, 60 of them black, and found African-American women had lower vitamin D levels than white women. The study links deficiency to a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer.
Lifestyle
Avoiding obesity more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
The writer argues that wearing pink raises awareness and encourages screening but does little to prevent breast cancer, which diet and lifestyle can influence. Cited work links low-fat diets, omega-3s and vitamin D to lower risk, and overweight to higher risk of contralateral breast cancer.
Vitamins
Vitamin D: More Effective in Fighting Breast Cancer than Wearing Pink?
Engel and colleagues compared serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in 636 women with breast cancer and 1,272 without, matched on age, menopausal status and collection details. The piece stresses the work does not prove vitamin D deficiency causes the disease.
Food
Low dietary fat more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
Comparing 1,703 breast cancer patients with 2,045 controls, Tufts researchers tied high total fat intake to 35 percent higher risk. Women who cooked with hydrogenated fats had 58 percent higher risk and those using vegetable or corn oil 30 percent higher, against olive or canola oil.
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