Researchers are only beginning to discover the links between dietary choices and health consequences. Now they've taken a major step toward understanding one of these links.
Breast cancer is a disease where a mutant cell in the breast forms a tumor.
More than 60 percent of breast cancers are detected in women age 50 and over. The researchers studied an animal model of breast cancer. The researchers have filed for a patent on the modified whey protein. In addition, it took longer for the mammary tumors to develop in the whey-fed rats, and they had fewer tumors. Badger stresses that the research is preliminary and that researchers would need to study thousands of women for years to determine the benefits of a particular dietary factor on breast cancer prevention.