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...While these results aren't definitive, researchers in Saudi Arabia and along Europe's Mediterranean coast have found similar patterns, as customary low-fat foods are abandoned. "We blindly accepted that the Western way of life was better," says Dr. Xu Guangwei, head of the Beijing-based China Anti-Cancer Association...
...Western body, some doctors in Singapore report having to adjust quantities in up to 30% of their patients to avoid adverse side effects. "Local scientists must do their own research and find their own regimens," says Dr. Richard Love, scientific director for the Wisconsin-based International Breast Cancer Research Foundation...
...Western Ways, Western Woes If the spread of U.S. and European lifestyles is indeed contributing to the breast-cancer boom, the first and worst of all those new habits is almost surely diet. In a study released in July, scientists traced the eating habits of 3,000 Chinese women, ranging in age from 25 to 64. Half of the group ate a "meat sweet" diet of Western cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy, desserts, bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional Asian fare of tofu, vegetables, sprouts, beans, fish and soy milk. Postmenopausal women...
...Western reproductive habits are also coming under scrutiny. As more women in newly industrializing nations join the workforce, they are limiting the number of children they are having. Research shows that women who give birth to fewer than two children have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who have larger broods. Part of the reason is probably that pregnancy and nursing provide the body with a sort of estrogen holiday, as the menstrual cycle is shut down for at least nine months and often a lot longer...
...Pregnancy and lactation may also change breast tissue by building antibodies that help prevent cells from becoming cancerous. The fewer pregnancies a woman has, the less this modification occurs. "[In India] what was protecting women in the past was that they had many children," says Dr. Vinod Raina, an oncologist in Delhi. Other researchers go even further, venturing to put a number on that claim. "Reproductive changes explain about 30% to 40% of breast-cancer threat," says Dr. Wei Zheng, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...