press release: Fruit and Vegetable Intake is Associated With Lower Risk of ER- Breast Cancer

 Blogger's Note: the original paper and accompanying editorial are paywalled; this press release has more detail (without requiring $$$)

Fruit and Vegetable Intake is Associated With Lower Risk of ER- Breast Cancer

"...The researchers found that total fruit and vegetable intake was statistically significantly linked to a lower risk of ER- breast cancer, but not with risk of overall breast cancer or risk of ER+ breast tumors. The results showed that the lower risk was mostly associated with higher vegetable consumption. “These findings support the value of examining etiologic factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by hormone receptor status in large pooled analyses because modest associations with less common breast cancer subtypes may have been missed in smaller studies,” the authors write....."