Dietary Fat Reduction and Breast Cancer Outcome: Interim Efficacy Results From the Women's Intervention Nutrition Study

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Authors

Rowan T. Chlebowski · Harbor–UCLA Medical Center

George L. Blackburn · Harvard University Press

Cynthia A. Thomson · Health Promotion Services

Daniel W. Nixon · National Institutes of Health

Alice Shapiro · Park Nicollet Health Services

M. Katherine Hoy · National Institutes of Health

Marc T. Goodman

Abstract

A lifestyle intervention reducing dietary fat intake, with modest influence on body weight, may improve relapse-free survival of breast cancer patients receiving conventional cancer management. Longer, ongoing nonintervention follow-up will address original protocol design plans, which called for 3 years of follow-up after completion of recruitment.

Topics & Keywords

Cancer Risks and Factors Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Zero hunger

Publication Details

Published in: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volume 98, Issue 24, pp. 1767-1776

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj494

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