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Low-fat diet may curb breast cancer recurrence

December 19, 2006

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. >>