Healthy Eating, Living Can Reduce Women's Risk of Getting Cancer; Highly Plausible That Findings Could Be Replicated in Broader Population, Including Men, Younger Adults.

AScribe Health News Service, July, 2004

Byline: Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, Minn., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study led by Mayo Clinic and involving nearly 30,000 women of post-menopausal age shows that following a healthier diet and lifestyle can indeed potentially reduce the risk of getting cancer and dying from it.

"Our study found that women who followed only one or none of the nine recommended diet and lifestyle guidelines, developed by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), had a 35 percent higher risk of developing cancer than women who practiced at least six of the recommendations," says James Cerhan, M.D., Ph.D., head of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center's genetic epidemiology and risk assessment program and leader of the research study.

Dr. Cerhan also notes that women...

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