ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 30, 1993                   TAG: 9303300071
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: SAN DIEGO                                LENGTH: Short

STUDY LINKS HIGH-FAT DIET, LUNG CANCER

Eating lots of saturated fat, long considered taboo for its link with heart disease, now appears to raise the risk of lung cancer in women, government researchers reported Monday.

The research, conducted by the National Cancer Institute, found that nonsmoking women with diets high in saturated fat - such as meat, butter and cheese - had about four times the usual risk of lung cancer.

Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the leading cause of lung cancer, the nation's No. 1 cancer killer. However, about 15 percent of women who get the disease are nonsmokers.

Breathing secondhand smoke and exposure to natural radon gas are thought to account for at least some of these cases, but circumstantial evidence has suggested that diet also played a role. - Associated Press 


 by CNB