Weight loss lowers breast cancer risk in BRCA1-positive women.(Women's Health)(Brief Article)

From: Internal Medicine News | Date: October 15, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

A weight loss of at least 10 pounds will significantly decrease the risk of early-onset breast cancer in women who carry a BRCA mutation, results of a large case-control study suggest.

Early-adulthood weight loss is especially important for women with the BRCA1 mutation. Among these women, losing the weight was associated with a 65% reduction in cancer risk, compared with a reference group of BRCA1 carriers, wrote Joanne Kotsopoulos, a doctoral student at the University of Toronto, and her colleagues (Breast Cancer Res. 2005;7:R833-43; doi 10.1186/bcr1293, online at ...

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