Breast Cancer and Diet: Good News and Bad News
in "Meat Mutagens and Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women - A Cohort Analysis" the researchers report the results of their study of breast cancer risk among women who consume meat cooked at temperatures high enough to produce heterocyclic amines (endocrine disruptors) and so-called "meat-derived mutagens". The good news is that the women were at no increased risk of estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer and at a slight decreased risk of estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer.
The bad news, if you've been forcing down lots of leafy greens in hopes of fending off breast cancer, is that cruciferous vegetable consumption seemed to have no effect, one way or the other, on breast cancer risk.
