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Link between dairy products and risk of breast cancer is weak.
2004 SEP 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The association between the consumption of dairy products and risk of breast cancer is weak.
"Differences in eating patterns and breast cancer rates across countries suggest that several dietary components, including dairy products, could affect breast cancer risk. However, dairy products are a diverse food group in terms of the factors that could potentially influence risk. Some dairy products, such as whole milk and many types of cheese, have a relatively high saturated fat content, which may increase risk," scientists in the United States report.
"Moreover, milk products may contain contaminants such as pesticides, which have carcinogenic potential, and growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor 1, which have been shown to promote breast cancer cell growth," said Patricia G. Moorman at Duke University and Paul D. Terry at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. "In contrast, the calcium and vitamin D contents of dairy products have been hypothesized to reduce breast cancer risk. We reviewed the current epidemiologic literature on the relation between dairy product intakes and breast cancer risk, focusing primarily on the results of cohort and case-control studies."
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