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When scientists asked older women to recall their dietary habits during their teen years, they found an interesting correlation: Women who ate one egg daily as teenagers were 18 percent less likely to develop breast cancer as adults.

The study--performed at Harvard Medical School and published in the February 24, 2003 edition of Breast Cancer Research-focused on 121,707 women aged 40 to 65. It is one of several new studies that continue to suggest a link between diet and incidence of breast cancer.

Risk of cancer as an adult was also lower among women who had eaten ...

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