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On the Nutritional Etiology of Breast Cancer

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Despite immense research efforts, the causes of breast cancer are still incompletely understood. Still, it would be too pessimistic to say that there is no insight at all. Epidemiologists have pinpointed a number of risk factors and experimental medicine has provided not only the understanding that carcinogenesis consists of a series of steps but also that endogenous (hormones) as well as exogenous (e.g. nutrition) factors are involved in the aetiology of breast cancer.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frits de Waard

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  1. Institute of Biochemistry of Macromolecules Medical School, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Vincenzo Zappia  & Fulvio Della Ragione  & 

  2. Fondazione “Giovanni Pascale”, National Cancer Institute, Naples, Italy

    Marco Salvatore

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de Waard, F. (1993). On the Nutritional Etiology of Breast Cancer. In: Zappia, V., Salvatore, M., Della Ragione, F. (eds) Advances in Nutrition and Cancer. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 348. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2942-2_12

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