Dietary pattern influences breast cancer prognosis in women without hot flashes: the women's healthy eating and living trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether a low-fat diet high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber differentially affects prognosis in breast cancer survivors with hot flashes (HF) or without HF after treatment.

Patients and methods

A secondary analysis was conducted on 2,967 breast cancer survivors, age 18 to 70 years, who were randomly assigned between 1995 and 2000 in a multicenter, controlled trial of a dietary intervention to prevent additional breast cancer events and observed through June 1, 2006. We compared the dietary intervention group with a group who received five-a-day dietary guidelines.

Results

Independent of HF status, a substantial between-group difference among those who did and did not receive dietary guidelines was achieved and maintained at 4 years in intake of ve

SUBMITTER: Gold EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2645853 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature