AACR Annual Meeting In Brief
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Shanghai Breast Cancer Study: Green tea consumption associated with 15% decreased breast cancer risk, Martha Shrubsole, Vanderbilt University and Shanghai Cancer Institute, et al., report at American Association of Cancer Research annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. April 6-10. Risk further declined with increased years of green tea consumption, number of servings/day. Multivitamin intake led to 48% reduced risk, with 30%, 25%, 27% decreases in breast cancer risk associated with vitamin B, C, E consumption, respectively; no duration or dose-response correlations were detected. Ginseng use did not ameliorate breast cancer risk. Study involved in-person interviews with 1,459 cases and 1,556 controls...