Foods and Breast Cancer Survival

Foods and Breast Cancer Survival - How Foods Fight Cancer

Compared to Western women, Japanese women were much
less likely to develop breast cancer and much more likely to survive
it if it occurred.

Healthful diets not only help prevent cancer, evidence suggests that
they also improve survival when cancer has been diagnosed. The
first clues that foods might affect the course of breast cancer came
from studies of women in Japan in the early 1960s. Compared to Western
women, Japanese women were much less likely to develop the disease and
much more likely to survive it if it occurred.1 Over the next several decades,
researchers have followed up on these observations to try to clarify what
is the best diet for cancer survival. Although this work is still in its early
stages, important information has already come to light.