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Lowering dietary fat intake reduces death rates in some women with breast cancer

SABCS 2014

9 - 11 Dec 2014

Published: 12 Dec 2014

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Prof Rowan Chlebowski - Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre, Torrance, USA

At a press conference at SABCS 2014, Prof Chlebowski discusses the results of the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study (WINS) on nutrition and breast cancer.

After fifteen years follow-up, non-hormone-related breast cancer patients who reduced their dietary fat intake for five years following a diagnosis had significantly reduced death rates.

Read the news story or watch the interview for more. Also see comment from Prof Kent Osborne.

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