Word: breast
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...team headed by investigators at the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention has found no evidence of any relationship between fat intake and the risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...observed no difference in the incidence of breast cancer in women consuming high fat diets and those consuming low fat diets," David Hunter, the lead author of the study, said in a press release...
Since the study finds that fat intake has no correlation with breast cancer, investigators concluded that reducing fat intake has no effect on breast cancer risk...
...results suggest that a reduction in total fat consumption by middle-aged or older women is unlikely to reduce breast cancer risk," said Hunter, who is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Medical Care Ombudsman Program, a national panel of independent transplant experts. Health Net has never reversed a decision of the MCOP. The panel has twice recommended against bone-marrow transplants. In the past three years, Health Net has approved 179 bone-marrow transplants, 55 of them for breast-cancer patients. To protect our medical groups from any adverse financial exposure for bone-marrow cases, Health Net has funded a special pool for transplants of all kinds. We are the only health plan to do so. Health Net has paid out more than $32 million from this pool in the past...