Abstract
pPostmenopausal women who’ve been treated for early-stage breast cancer might reduce their chances for recurrence or for a second breast cancer if they reduce their consumption of dietary fat, according to results from the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study (WINS). The results, which are based on an interim analysis of the data, are reported in the Dec. 20, 2006 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This study adds to evidence found in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), which last year examined the effect of a low-fat diet on breast cancer risk and showed a trend toward a modest benefi t of a reduced-fat diet on the incidence of invasive breast cancer. WINS enrolled 2,437 women between 1994 and 2001 who had been treated for early-stage breast cancer. The women, ages 48 to 79, were randomly assigned to a lower fat dietary intervention group or a control group who ate their regular diet. At the start of the study, both groups consumed similar amounts of calories from fat— about 57 g of fat per day or close to 30 percent of total daily caloric intake. At the end of the fi rst year of observation, the
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