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# Western diet linked to endometrial cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/western_diet_endometrial_cancer_0117150944/
- Published: 2015-01-17T22:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:06:01.000Z
- Description: An Italian case-control study of 454 women with endometrial cancer and 908 hospital controls linked the most Western-style diets to 63 percent higher risk and diets heavy in animal foods and polyunsaturated fats to 76 percent higher risk. Associations were stronger among obese women.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Diet, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Saturday Jan 17, 2015 (foodconsumer.org) -- A study in the Dec 2014 issue of Cancer Epidemiology suggests that eating a Western diet or a diet full of animal-derived foods and vegetable oils which are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids increases risk of endometrial cancer.

The study involved 454 women with endometrial cancer and 908 hospital controls admitted to the same hospitals to receive treatment for acute, non-neoplastic diseases. 

The case-control study conducted in Italy showed that the diet that was most like the Western diet, compared with the one least like Western diet was associated with 63% increased risk of endometrial cancer. 

Similarly, the diet full of animal derived foods and polyunsaturated fatty acids was linked to 76% increased risk of the cancer.

The Western diet and the diet full of animal-derived foods and polyunsaturated fatty acids were associated with 108% and 130% increased risk of endometrial cancer among women with a body mass index equal to or greater than 30 kg/m2, respectively.

Diets full of vitamins and fiver, which is a plant-based diet, full of starch or full of other fats were not associated with increased risk of endometrial cancer.

The study concluded "This study indicates that dietary habits characterized by high intakes of animal products increase endometrial cancer risk, the association being appreciably stronger for obese women. (David Liu, Ph.D.)

*Bravi F, Bertuccio P, Turati F, Serraino D, Edefonti V, Dal Maso L, Decarli A, Montella M5, Zucchetto A, La Vecchia C, Bosetti C, Ferraroni M. Nutrient-based dietary patterns and endometrial cancer risk: an Italian case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol. 2014 Dec 30.*