TY - JOUR T1 - The beneficial effect of a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil in the primary prevention of breast cancer among women at high cardiovascular risk in the PREDIMED Trial JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 71 LP - 71 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2016-102303 VL - 19 IS - 3 AU - Niki Mourouti AU - Demosthenes B Panagiotakos Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/3/71.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Toledo E, Salas-Salvadó J, Donat-Vargas C, et al. Mediterranean diet and invasive breast cancer risk among women at high cardiovascular risk in the PREDIMED trial: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern Med 2015;175:1752–60.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedAdherence to a Mediterranean diet can be part of dietary recommendations concerning the prevention of breast cancer, since it is inexpensive and non-pharmacological.There is a need for more large-scale prospective or randomised trials in order to confirm the beneficial effect of a Mediterranean diet on breast cancer incidence.Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in females worldwide;1 it belongs to a subgroup of cancers which have been linked to metabolic and some dietary factors. During recent years, several investigators in the field of nutritional epidemiology have … ER -