Fruit and vegetable consumption and breast cancer incidence: Repeated measures over 30 years of follow‐up

• Published in: International journal of cancer Vol. 144; no. 7; pp. 1496 - 1510
• Main Authors: Farvid, Maryam S., Chen, Wendy Y., Rosner, Bernard A., Tamimi, Rulla M., Willett, Walter C., Eliassen, A. Heather
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2019; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms - metabolism; Cancer; Epidermal growth factor; ErbB-2 protein; estrogen receptor; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Fruit; fruit and vegetable; Fruits; Health risk assessment; Humans; Incidence; Invasiveness; Medical research; Middle Aged; molecular subtype; Nutrition Assessment; Nutrition Surveys; Prospective Studies; Receptor, ErbB-2 - metabolism; Risk factors; Tumors; Vegetables; Within-subjects design; breast cancer; estrogen receptor; fruit and vegetable; molecular subtype

We evaluated the relation of fruit and vegetable consumption, including specific fruits and vegetables, with incident breast cancer characterized by menopausal status, hormone receptor status and molecular subtypes. Fruit and vegetable consumption, cumulatively averaged across repeated, validated qu...