BACKGROUND: There is compelling evidence that estrogens influence breast cancer risk.
Since the mid-1980s, dietary fat intervention studies have been conducted to investigate the …

The association of dietary fat with breast cancer in prospective cohort studies has generally
been weak and not statistically significant. However, these studies have not considered …

It has been hypothesized that a high-fat diet promotes the development of postmenopausal
breast cancer. This contention is supported by data showing high international correlations …

In 1986 a prospective cohort study on diet and cancer was started in the Netherlands among
62,573 women ages 55–69 years. Baseline information on diet and other risk factors was …

Background: Epidemiologic studies have produced conflicting results with respect to an
association of dietary fat with breast cancer. Objective: We aimed to investigate the …

Dietary fat in midlife has not been associated with breast cancer risk in most studies, but few
have followed women beyond one decade. The authors examined the relation of dietary fat …

Background Experiments in animals, international correlation comparisons, and case–
control studies support an association between dietary fat intake and the incidence of breast …

Background: International comparisons and case–control studies have suggested a positive
relation between dietary fat intake and breast cancer risk, but prospective studies, most of …

Background: Although the results of animal studies and cross-cultural comparisons
generally support a role for dietary fat in the etiology of breast cancer, results of analytic …

Background Although ecologic association and animal studies support a direct effect of
dietary fat on the development of breast cancer, results of epidemiologic studies have been …