Red Meat Consumption Associated with Increased Risk for Breast Cancer

This report today from Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that eating more red meat may be associated with a higher risk for hormone receptor–positive breast cancers in premenopausal women. This research is published in the November 13 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. "This study suggests that dietary factors may be related to a woman’s chance of developing this type of breast cancer, a disease that is on the rise in American women," said lead author, Eunyoung Cho, Sc.D, researcher at BWH.