Título: Milk and yogurt intake and bread cáncer risk. A meta-analysis.

Fecha de publicación: Marzo de 2019.

Fuentes: Estudios publicados desde 1981 hasta 1990. 8 potential publications on the association between milk intake and  breast
cancer. Among the 8 studies, 2 were conducted in the United States, 1 each in French, the Netherlands, Norwegian, Finland, and
Japan and another was from EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition).

Autores: Disciplina/profesión/filiación institucional:

1) Hao Li Associate profesor of Computer Science at the University of

Southern California, the director of the Vision and Graphics Lab
at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and CEO/Co-
Founder of Pinscreen. Fields: Computer Graphycs, Computer
Vision.

Neuroscientist, profesor of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry an

Behavioral Sciences at Stanfor University, and is a member of
the Stanford Neurosciencies Institute.

Has previously worked on chemical analysis of air pollutants

2) Lu Chen when she has a research associate at Rutgers University. She
collaborated with Departament of Enviromental Protection of
New York City metropolitan área. Also developed a new
research interest in occupational health and collaborated with
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health at
Pittsburgh site since 2009; Is currently collaborating with
researcher in West Virginia University to developed and new
3) Min Li analytical protocol for identifying pesticide residues on fruits

Objetivos de la investigación: The purpose of this study is to assess the connection of intakes of milk and milk products ( yogurt)
and risk of breast cancer by a meta-analysisof case-control studies. This analysis was based on separately ingredients of milk,
including low-fat/skim milk, whole milk, and yogurt. We based on the previous meta-analysis and extend more case-control
studies to identify the relationship of milk or milk products intakes with breast cancer incidence.

Tipo de investigación: research article.

Fundamentación teórica: studies in PubMed and Chinese biomedicine databases for related articles published in any language. Key
words: “dairy products” or “milk” combined with “breast cancer”.

Metodología: Publication search, Data extraction and Hallazgos/resultados: Characteristics of studies for meta-
classification, Statistical analysis and Ethical approval. analysis, Low-fat/skim milk, Whole milk, Yogurt and

Conclusión o discusión final: The published epidemiologic data do not provide consistent evidence for an association between the
consumption of milk or milk products and breast cancer risk. However, among these data many factors must be considered.
Moreover, assessment of dietary factor in relation to cancer risk is very difficult and affected by many potential biases. Several
methods used in epidemiologic studies, such as food frequency questionnaires and diet records or food diaries, have shown only
moderate reliability, and some misclassification of intake is also unavoidable (Kroke et al., 1999; Bimghan, 2003).  Therefore,
different dietary assessment methods may produce different results. It is generally believed that most dietary factors have relatively
small effects on cancer risk and the inevitable misclassification of dietary variables increases the difficulty of detection in risk
associated with consumption of milk products.