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Red Meat May Be Linked to Breast Cancer
at Early Age
(American Cancer Society,11/20/06)
Eunyoung Cho, ScD, and colleagues at Harvard Medical School
reviewed data from 91,000 premenopausal female participants in
the Nurses' Health Study II and found that women who ate 1.5
or more servings of red meat daily were more likely to develop
hormone-dependent breast cancer at an early age.
("Red Meat Intake and Risk of Breast Cancer
Among Premenopausal Women," Archives of Internal Medicine,
11/13/06 (Vol. 166. No. 20: 2253-2259) |
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