Scientists from Paris-Saclay University found that adherence to a healthful plant-based food diet is linked to a reduced risk of breast cancer for older women.
The research was presented at Nutrition 2022 and was conducted by Sanam Shah et al.
In the study, the team examined the association between long-term adherence to a plant-based diet and breast cancer risk in 65,574 older women.
Self-reported dietary intake at the beginning and during follow-up was used to develop scores for healthful (hPDI) and unhealthful (uPDI) plant-based diets.
The team found 3,968 breast cancer cases during a follow-up of 21 years.
Adherence to a healthy plant-based diet was linked to reduced breast cancer risk.
Increased estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and lobular carcinoma were seen in association with adherence to an unhealthy plant-based diet.
These findings highlight that increasingly eating healthy plant foods and decreasing the eating of less healthy plant foods and animal foods might help prevent all types of breast cancer.
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