title: [Nutrition and carcinoma of the breast: presentation of a french investigation (author's transl)].
abstract: The existence of dietary risk factors in breast cancer of post-menopausal women is a recent, and yet unproven hypothesis. A French survey made possible by the cooperation of general surgeons and radiotherapists practising in private clinics is currently in progress in a number of metropolitan departments. A preliminary evaluation of the first 654 questionnaires has proved entirely negative. There was no difference between women with breast cancer and a population of age-matched controls with regard to weight, height or the various traditionnal indices of obesity. However, the number of patients studied is too small to allow this hypothesis to be still rejected.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Nutrition et cancer du sein: présentation d'une enquête française.