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Lifelong vegetarianism and breast cancer risk: a large multicentre case control study in India
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Background
The lower incidence of breast cancer in Asian populations where the intake of animal products is lower than that of Western populations has led some to suggest that a vegetarian diet might reduce breast cancer risk.
Methods
Between 2011 and 2014 we conducted a multicentre hospital based case-control study in eight cancer centres in India. Eligible cases were women aged 30-70 years, with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer (ICD10 C50). Controls were ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Women's Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Pages:
- 6
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-13
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- ISSN:
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1472-6874
- Source identifiers:
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667929
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- pubs:667929
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- 2017-01-03
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- Barnes et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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