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 …

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 …

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: The intake of total dietary fat and of certain fat subtypes has been shown to be
strongly associated with breast cancer in international comparisons and in animal …

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 …

We examined the association between fat intake and breast cancer incidence in the Nurses'
Health Study II. We followed 88,804 women aged 26–45 years from 1991 to 2011 and …

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

Recently, there has been interest in whether intakes of specific types of fat are associated
with breast cancer risk independently of other types of fat, but results have been …

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 …

Dietary fat has been widely studied as a risk factor for breast cancer, with little consistency in
results. The Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC) provides an opportunity to assess this …