Abstract
pausal status, and therefore the association of fat intake with breast cancer risk may be different in postmenopausal women compared with premenopausal women. • Moreover, dietary patterns in early life have been implicated in the etiology of breast cancer, and dietary fat consumption during adolescence or even in childhood may influence the risk of breast cancer in adulthood.8 As rapid growth and maturation of the breasts occur during adolescence, a woman’s diet as an adolescent could potentially affect her risk of developing breast cancer more than her diet would as an adult.8,9 Although case-controlled studies generally do not support an association between childhood diet and risk of breast cancer,10,11 most studies suffer
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