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Does Diet Affect Cancer Recurrence?

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Does Diet Affect Cancer Recurrence?

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September 3, 2007 By Stephanie Meyers, M.S., R.D., L.D.N. Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital • What the Reseach Shows • 5-A-Day Is Still Sound Advice • Healthy Lifestyle Is Key This past July, the latest results of The Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) trial were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study of 3,088 women concluded that eating more fruits, vegetables and fiber while eating less fat did not reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer recurrence or death. Yet just two years earlier other data from WHEL showed that women who had the highest levels of carotenoids in their blood (a biomarker for fruit and vegetable intake) lowered their chances of breast cancer returning by 43% compared with women with the lowest levels of carotenoids in their blood. How can one study generate such different results? Does eating more fruits and vegetables offer any potential benefit for cancer survivors? It’s not surprising that ma