SAN ANTONIO– Living in food deserts and food swamps– locations without any access to healthy food, and locations with a variety of junk food alternatives– might raise the danger of passing away from postmenopausal breast cancer, an unique eco-friendly research study has actually discovered.
“Food deserts and food swamps are both bad, however it’s even worse in food swamps,” Malcolm Bevel, PhD, MSPH, with Augusta University in Georgia, informed Medscape Medical News
He provided his research study here at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2023.
Breast cancer is the 4th leading reason for cancer death in the United States and is among 13 obesity-related cancers. Healthy food usage is a protective element revealed to reduce weight problems danger and postmenopausal breast cancer death.
Living in food deserts or food swamps lowers access to healthy foods and has actually been significantly understudied concerning postmenopausal breast cancer death, Bevel discussed.
To examine, Bevel and associates did a cross-sectional, environmental analysis where they combined 2010 to 2020 postmenopausal breast cancer death information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with aggregated 2012 to 2020 information from the United States Department of Agriculture Food Environment Atlas.