Fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and early adulthood and risk of breast cancer: population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between fruit and vegetable intake during adolescence and early adulthood and risk of breast cancer.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Health professionals in the United States.

Participants

90 476 premenopausal women aged 27-44 from the Nurses' Health Study II who completed a questionnaire on diet in 1991 as well as 44 223 of those women who completed a questionnaire about their diet during adolescence in 1998.

Main outcome measure

Incident cases of invasive breast cancer, identified through self report and confirmed by pathology report.

Results

There were 3235 cases of invasive breast cancer during follow-up to 2013. Of these, 1347 cases were among women who completed a questionnaire about their diet

SUBMITTER: Farvid MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5068921 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature