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Healthy Heart Lifestyle Reduces Cancer Risk
People who follow the American Heart Association’s heart health guidelines have a 51% lower risk of developing cancer than people who don’t follow those guidelines.
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Study Suggests Full-Fat Dairy Products May Be Linked to Worse Survival
A study suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who eat full-fat dairy products after diagnosis are more likely to die from breast cancer than women who eat low-fat dairy products after diagnosis.
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More Younger Women Being Diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer
During the past 30 years, more women age 25 to 39 were diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
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Study Suggests Organic Foods May Not Be More Nutritious, but Also Points Out How Much We Don’t Know
An analysis of 237 studies didn't show that organic foods are substantially healthier than conventionally produced foods, but there were some limitations in the studies that were analyzed.
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Can Coffee Reduce Risk?
New research suggests that drinking five or more cups of coffee per day may reduce the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, particularly hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer.
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Research Looks for Links Between Fish Oil, Lower Risk
Research suggests a link between fish oil and a lower risk of breast cancer, but more research is needed.
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Soy Foods Seem OK for Women Who’ve Been Diagnosed
A new study found that Chinese women diagnosed with breast cancer who ate a diet rich in soy foods had a lower risk of dying of breast cancer and a lower risk of breast cancer coming back compared to women diagnosed with breast cancer who didn't eat a lot of soy.
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Hispanics Living in U.S. Have Higher Cancer Risk Than Those in Native Countries
Hispanics living in the United States are more likely to develop any type of cancer compared to Hispanics living in their native countries.
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Soy Supplements Don’t Affect Breast Density
New research shows that postmenopausal women who took large amounts of isoflavone supplements (a compound in soy) had no change in breast density, which suggests that a diet rich in soy doesn't affect breast cancer risk.
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Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Don’t Reduce Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Results from the Women's Health Initiative study suggest that vitamin D and calcium supplements don't lower breast cancer risk.
