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The relationship between diet and breast cancer in men (United States)

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Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between food and beverage consumption and the development of breast cancer in men.

Methods: Possible relationships of dietary factors to risk of breast cancer in men were assessed in a case-control study conducted between 1983 and 1986. Cases (N=220) were ascertained from ten population-based cancer registries. Controls (N=291) were selected by random-digit dialing (<age 65) and from Health Care Financing Administration Medicare beneficiary lists (≥age 65).

Results: No trends in risk were observed with increasing intakes of specific foods, except for an increase in risk with citrus fruits. No increase in risk with increasing amounts of specific fats, vitamins, or minerals or with amounts of protein, fiber, carbohydrate, starches, nitrites, or alcohol consumed was observed, except for an increase in risk with dietary vitamin C consumption. A decreasing trend in risk with dietary niacin and with coffee and an increasing trend in risk with tea consumption were observed. No associations were found with use of any dietary supplements, including vitamin C.

Conclusions: The observed associations are not consistent with findings from studies of breast cancer in women and probably do not represent causal relationships. Dietary factors are unlikely to be strong determinants of breast cancer in men.

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  1. Department of Community Health, 121 Huff Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 South Fourth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA (Phone

    Karin A. Rosenblatt

  2. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    David B. Thomas & Anne McTiernan

  3. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    David B. Thomas

  4. Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    L. Margarita Jimenez

  5. Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Northwest Lipid Research Clinics, Seattle, WA, USA

    Brian Fish

  6. University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

    Helge Stalsberg

  7. Pharmaceutical Division, CIBA-GEIGA Corporation, Summit, NJ, USA

    Annette Stemhagen

  8. University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA

    W. Douglas Thompson

  9. Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit, New Haven, CT, USA

    Mary G. McGrea Curnen

  10. School of Public Health, University of Carlifornia, Berkeley, CA, USA

    William Satariano

  11. Oregon Health Division, Portland, OR, USA

    Donald F. Austin

  12. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Raymond S. Greenberg

  13. New Mexico Tumor Registry, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Charles Key

  14. Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Laurence N. Kolonel

  15. Northern California Cancer Center, Alameda, CA, USA

    Dee W. West

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Rosenblatt, K.A., Thomas, D.B., Jimenez, L.M. et al. The relationship between diet and breast cancer in men (United States). Cancer Causes Control 10, 107–113 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008808925665

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