Menopausal women may have a new weapon when it comes to breast cancer. An American study concluded that consuming vitamin supplements helps to survive the disease.
Could Consuming Food Supplements Help Women Fight Breast Cancer? A team of American researchers has just provided some answers in a study carried out on more than 161,000 postmenopausal women. Their work was published on October 10 in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.
Of all women aged 50 to 79, 7,728 developed invasive breast cancer. These women were followed for seven years. Four in ten took multivitamin and mineral supplements every day before and during their cancer. It is the most widely used type of food supplement in the United States: one in three Americans consumes it. In France, it is almost half as much.
The researchers were surprised by the result: consumers of vitamin and mineral supplements die of cancer less than other women. The other factors likely to reduce mortality were scrutinized: tobacco consumption, alcohol, weight, age, diabetes, physical activity, mental health, level of education or even ethnic group. The results remain encouraging: the consumption of supplements reduced the risk of dying from cancer by 30%. The team remains cautious in the study report: “the results need confirmation. “
The study still allows us to draw up a profile of multivitamin supplement consumers. They are rather elderly and thin and Caucasian in type. His level of income and education is rather high, his general health is good. She also has less of a history of diabetes. These parameters bear witness to the strong inequality in the face of cancer in the United States.
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