Summary of Breast Cancer Risk
Primary Information, Benefits, Effects, and Important Facts
Scientific Information on Breast Cancer Risk
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Breast Cancer Risk
Human Effect Matrix
The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect breast cancer risk
| Grade | Level of Evidence |
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| Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials | |
| Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled | |
| Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies | |
| Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence ?
The amount of high quality evidence. The more evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect ?
The direction and size of the supplement's impact on each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results ?
Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notes |
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| Vitamin E |
All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference. The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here. |
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| Ginkgo biloba | ||||
| Vitamin D | ||||
| Melatonin | ||||
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"Breast Cancer Risk," Examine.com, published on 28 June 2017, last updated on 28 June 2017, http://examine.com/topics/breast-cancer-risk/