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Lipids, Obesity, and Female Reproductive Cancer

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Lipids and Women’s Health

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Carcinoma of the breast, endometrium, ovary, and prostate are sex hormone-related cancers. In each case there is evidence to support a causal association between these cancers, obesity, and dietary lipids. Of the three cancers occurring in women, the most important relation—because of the high and increasing incidence rate in many parts of the world—is that for breast cancer. It is also the most contentious, with regard to the role of diet, and so it is appropriate that lipid, obesity and breast cancer receive special emphasis in this review.

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Rose, D.P. (1991). Lipids, Obesity, and Female Reproductive Cancer. In: Redmond, G.P. (eds) Lipids and Women’s Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3014-4_10

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