Low-fat diet may curb breast cancer recurrence

The first experiment ever to show low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer followup, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumour growth was not driven by hormones.

That could be huge — the new results suggest, but cannot prove, these women might be able to cut their risk of dying by up to 66 per cent with such diets. >>

Computer workers more likely to die of cancer

Workers at computer factories are at increased risk of dying of cancer. The largest study of its kind looks at over 30,000 deaths of workers who had been employed at IBM factories in the USA.

The study reveals that IBM factory workers were more likely to have died of cancer, including brain, kidney or breast cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, than the rest of the population.  >>