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- Title
Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case for Subtype-Specific Risk?
- Authors
Thomson, Cynthia A.; Thompson, Patricia A.
- Abstract
The article discusses a study on the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on breast cancer risk among women in the Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (Pooling Project). Conducted by S. Jung et al., the study involved hormone-responsive, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive patients and nonhormonal, ER-negative patients. Results revealed a protective effect of fruit and vegetable consumption for risk of ER-negative breast cancer, but not ER-positive breast cancer.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer research; BREAST cancer risk factors; CANCER in women; FOOD habits; ESTROGEN receptors; CANCER patients
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2013, Vol 105, Issue 3, p164
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djs640