High-Carb Diet Linked to Breast Cancer

 

By Miranda Hitti, WebMD Medical News

 

Aug. 6, 2004 -- Eating a diet high in carbohydrates -- particularly the sugary kinds -- may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in women.

 

From a study of 1,866 women aged 20 to 75 in Mexico City, researchers interviewed the women about their diets and found that breast cancer risk rose with carbohydrate consumption. Those who ate the most carbohydrates had more than twice the risk of breast cancer than those who ate the least.  The results held after other risk factors like body mass index (a measure of body fat), family history of breast cancer, and the age at which the women first gave birth were screened out.

 

All carbohydrates are not alike. In this study, one kind particularly stood out -- sucrose, or table sugar. "Sucrose intake was significantly related to the risk of breast cancer," write the researchers.

 

The study linked insoluble fiber -- the kind that can't be digested -- with a lower risk of breast cancer.

 

The study failed to show an association between dietary fat and overall breast cancer risk.

 

"Scientists have long suspected that diet was among the factors contributing to breast cancer," says Willet. "We are beginning to gradually understand what elements of diet specifically are associated with the disease."

 

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Now a second article on breast cancer.  This one reinforces the value of getting regular mammograms.  It says that when tumors are picked-up on a routine mammogram, they are milder and have better outcomes.  Take note !

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Breast Cancer Milder If Caught by Mammogram

 

By Daniel DeNoon, WebMD Medical News  

 

Aug. 31, 2004 -- There's consolation for women who, during regular breast cancer mammogram screening, find out they have a tumor. Outcomes are significantly better when mammograms are the first sign of breast cancer.

 

The finding comes from analysis of detailed medical records from nearly 3,500 Finnish women diagnosed in 1991-1992 with invasive breast cancer. It suggests that women with mammogram-detected breast cancer may not need as aggressive treatment as women whose tumors are found in other ways, says Heikki Joensuu, MD, director of oncology at Helsinki University in Finland.

 

"This study tells us that tumors found in screening mammograms are different than the ones found outside screening. These tumors may be in less need of aggressive systemic therapies."
 
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