Dietary Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk: A Multi-Centre Case Control Study among North Indian Women.

ABSTRACT: Evidence from India, a country with unique and distinct food intake patterns often characterized by lifelong adherence, may offer important insight into the role of diet in breast cancer etiology. We evaluated the association between Indian dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in a multi-centre case-control study conducted in the North Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. Eligible cases were women 30⁻69 years of age, with newly diagnosed, biopsy-confirmed breast cancer recruited from hospitals or population-based cancer registries. Controls (hospital- or population-based) were frequency matched to the cases on age and region (Punjab or Haryana). Information about diet, lifestyle, reproductive and socio-demographic factors was collected using a structured interviewer-administered questio

SUBMITTER: Shridhar K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6164652 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature