Diet and cancer in Northeast Brazil: evaluation of eating habits and food group consumption in relation to breast cancer Dieta e câncer no Nordeste do Brasil: avaliação da relação entre alimentação e consumo de grupos de alimentos e câncer de mama

• Main Authors: Flávia Emília Leite de Lima (Author), Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre (Author), Maria José de Carvalho Costa (Author), Regina Mara Fisberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A hospital-based case-control study was performed from August 2002 to November 2003 in Northeast Brazil. Eighty-nine women were recruited with histologically confirmed breast cancer (age 30-80 years), matched for age with 94 controls. Food consumption of cases and controls was evaluated by foods and...