A diet containing low-fat food items is likely to aid women in their
postmenopausal phase to keep away from breast cancer as well as lower
the mortality risk rates associated with the deadly disease, finds a
study.
The findings showed that women who stayed on a low fat diet for
approximately eight years reduced their risk of death from invasive
breast cancers.
They also improved their survival rates by 82 percent when compared with women who had not followed the dietary regimen.
Women who did not follow the diet were at 78 percent overall survival risks.
“This
was the first time we had examined the deaths after breast cancer among
this group, and we found that a sustained low fat diet increased the
survival rates among postmenopausal women after a breast cancer
diagnosis,” said Rowan Chlebowski from the Los Angeles Biomedical
Research Institute in the US.
Also, heart disease mortality rate was seen to be lower in the dietary group.
However,
most of the breast cancer characteristics-including size, nodal status,
and distribution of poor prognosis, triple negative cancers and HER2
positive cancers-were found similar between the two groups of women.
“The
study also suggests that women would need to remain on the low fat
diets to maintain the benefits of the dietary intervention,” Chlebowski
suggested.
To determine the effects of a low fat dietary pattern
on breast cancer, the team conducted additional analyses of a randomised
clinical trial that had followed 48,835 postmenopausal women.
The women were aged 50-79, had no prior breast cancer and had normal mammograms as wells as had an intake normal dietary fat.
Of
those, 19,541 women were put on a low fat diet with nutritionist-led
group sessions that sought to reduce fat intake to 20 percent of energy
and increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and grain.
The other 29,294 women in the trial followed their usual dietary patterns.
The
study was presented at a clinical trial plenary session, at the ongoing
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in
Louisiana, US.
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