Diet and breast carcinoma in multiethnic populations

✍ Scribed by Anna H. Wu

• Book ID: 101231900
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 204 KB
• Volume: 88
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(20000301)88:5+<1239::aid-cncr10>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

T here is accumulating evidence implicating a role for diet in many cancers and other chronic diseases. However, the extent to which dietary factors are related to the risk of breast carcinoma and may explain in part some of the racial/ethnic differences observed in breast carcinoma incidence rates is not known. In the last 20 years, a large number of studies (conducted primarily among white women in the U.S. or elsewhere in the West) have investigated the role of diet, in particular dietary fat, in the etiology of breast carcinoma. However, to my knowledge few U.S. studies regarding diet and breast carcinoma have included nonwhite women. [1][2][3][4] This review first will describe some of the racial/ethnic differences in dietary habits. Second, it will review the role of selected dietary factors (e.g., fat, specific fatty acids, fried meat/heterocyclic amines [HAs], and alcohol) that have been hypothesized to increase the risk of breast carcinoma. Third, the current study will review the role of protective factors including fruits and vegetables and phytoestrogens and the risk of breast carcinoma.