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A new study found that young women, if they are to eat more red meat may increase the risk of suffering from certain kinds of breast cancer, its causes are possible, including beef and other red meat in the residual hormones and other factors.

The research data from a United States more than 90,000 nurses in the health status of the investigation carried out for many years, surveys have shown that for relatively young women, especially premenopausal women, and their red meat intake and suffering from estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer risk associated size.

Because of hormone receptor-positive tumors carry a certain protein, estrogen and progesterone, therefore these two hormones will speed up tumor growth, the incidence of this type of tumor at the United States has been an upward trend, especially in middle-aged women.

The study from the beginning in 1989, when the diet of these women and other habits were investigated. From 1991 to 2003, researchers in these circumstances for women to eat red meat a long follow-up survey. Only before the menopause and no women with cancer to participate in this investigation.

The results showed that a week with those who eat red meat 3 copies of the following women as compared to every day to eat at least one-half of red meat the women’s risk of breast cancer has almost doubled.

The results showed that there is already cooked or otherwise deal with the red meat will increase the experimental animals with breast cancer risk. In this regard, the researchers suspect that this same result in increased risk of breast cancer.

That exist in other red meat could lead to potential risk factors for breast cancer include: animal fat and red meat contains a kind of iron compounds, studies have shown that such compounds on the incidence of breast cancer plays an important role.