Open AccessConsumption of Vegetables and Fruits and Risk of Breast Cancer
Author(s) -
Carla H. van Gils
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.293.2.183
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , european prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition , relative risk , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , cancer , cohort study , environmental health , physics , optics
The intake of vegetables and fruits has been thought to protect against breast cancer. Most of the evidence comes from case-control studies, but a recent pooled analysis of the relatively few published cohort studies suggests no significantly reduced breast cancer risk is associated with vegetable and fruit consumption.
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