Two Glasses of Milk May Up Ovarian Cancer Risk
(NY, Reuters Health, 11/17/04)

Dr. Susanna C. Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and team, had 61,084 women report how often they ate dairy products, such as milk and cheese. The investigators tracked the subjects for about 13.5 years and found that the risk for developing serious epithelial ovarian cancer was double for the subjects who regularly drank two or more glasses of milk or who consumed four or more servings of dairy products daily as compared with those consuming less than two daily servings. While scientists cannot yet explain the possible association between milk products and cancer, some have speculated that the galactose contained in lactose, a sugar found in milk, may be responsible for the increased risk

(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2004)