Our Global Network is dedicated to funding research and health education programmes into the links between food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and cancer risk.
Breast cancer
Latest evidence
The research team at Imperial College London produced a report of the updated evidence on food, nutrition and physical activity in relation to the prevention of breast cancer in 2008.
The review added 81 papers and updated meta-analyses for body mass index, abdominal fatness, adult attained height, alcohol and dietary fibre.
The Panel considered the updated evidence and agreed that the updated CUP findings confirmed the convincing and probable conclusions of the Second Expert Report for breast cancer.
A WCRF/AICR Summary published in 2010 updates the breast cancer section of the Second Expert Report and is based on the findings of the 2008 report and the Expert Panel discussion.
Conclusions from the updated evidence for breast cancer
The Panel's judgements for factors graded convincing and probable are shown below. Further details on other factors can be found in the WCRF/AICR Summary. Information on how the Panel judged the evidence can be found in chapter 3 of the Second Expert Report.
The updated report and summary, as well as the protocol can be downloaded from our resource downloads section.
One journal paper based on the latest evidence in the CUP database has been published.
Database
Breast cancer was the first cancer site to be updated as it is one of the most common cancers with many research papers being published each year. This also meant it was a good choice to develop the structure for the new central database containing the evidence for all the cancers reviewed.
There were 609 papers on breast cancer from cohort studies in the database by August 2011. The most active area of research continues to be body mass index. Adult attained height and alcohol also remain active research areas. In recent years papers have been published on dietary fat, folate, fish and recreational physical activity.