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II Complete the text using the words from the list. There are five
words extra. Use the words only once.
Mediterranean diet linked to lower risk of one type of breast
cancer
"Eating a Mediterranean diet 'cuts deadly breast cancer (1)..........
by 40%' in postmenopausal women," says the Mail Online of a widely
reported study (2).......... out by researchers in the Netherlands. The
(3).......... looked at data from a study involving more than 60,000
women aged 55-69 over a 20-year (4).......... At the start of the study,
details of the women's (5).........., physical activity and other cancer-
(6).......... risk factors were collected. The researchers then compared
the diets of more than 2,000 women who went on to (7).......... breast
cancer with a selected group of similar women who didn't develop the
cancer. Overall, there was no link between a Mediterranean diet and
breast cancer risk.
However, the researchers found women whose diet was most like a
Mediterranean diet were 40% less likely to develop one (8).......... type
of breast cancer: (9).......... receptor-positive breast cancer. As with all
studies of this type, it's difficult to separate out the effects of diet and
other lifestyle (10).........., such as exercise (11)........... This makes it
difficult to be certain that the differences in risk are the result of the
Mediterranean diet (12)...........The researchers tried to take into
(13).......... other factors that could (14).......... the risk of breast
cancer, but it's difficult to identify all (15).......... contributing factors.p