Breast Cancer 2010 Report, Project "Keeping the Science Current"
American Institute for Cancer Research / World Cancer Research Fund
USA, 2010, 33 pagesWorld Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research. Continuous
Update Project Report. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Breast
Cancer. 2010This Report provides an updated version of section 7.10 Breast Cancer from the Second
Expert Report: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global
Perspective. This section has been updated with the latest information from the 2008
Continuous Update Project Breast Cancer SLR prepared by a team at Imperial College
London, UK (see acknowledgements). For further details on the epidemiological evidence
please see the full 2008 Continuous Update Project Breast Cancer SLR (Second Expert
Report). For further details on mechanisms please see the Second Expert Report.The First and Second Expert Reports represent the most extensive analysis of the existing
science on the subject to date. To keep the evidence current and updated into the future,
WCRF/AICR is undertaking the Continuous Update Project, in collaboration with Imperial
College London. The Continuous Update Project builds upon the work conducted for the
Second Expert Report and began by merging all the databases from the different cancer
sites into an upgraded database.The Continuous Update Project provides the scientific community with a comprehensive
and up to date depiction of scientific developments on the relationship between diet,
physical activity, obesity and cancer. It also provides an impartial analysis and
interpretation of the data as a basis for reviewing and where necessary revising
WCRF/AICR's cancer prevention recommendations based on the 2007 Expert Report.
In the same way that the Second Expert Report was informed by a process of systematic
literature reviews (SLRs), the Continuous Update Project systematically reviews the
science. WCRF/AICR has convened a panel of experts (the Continuous Update Project
Panel (see acknowledgements) consisting of leading scientists in the field of diet,
physical activity, obesity and cancer who consider the evidence produced by the
systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, and consider the results and draw
conclusions before making recommendations.The updates to the SLRs are being conducted by a team of scientists at Imperial College
London in liaison with the SLR centres where possible.
Instead of periodically repeating the extensive task of conducting multiple systematic
literature reviews that cover a long period of time, the continuous review process is based
on a live system of scientific data that is updated on an ongoing basis from which, at any
point in time, the most current review and meta-analysis of scientific data can be
performed.Periodically WCRF/AICR will produce reports which will outline the scientific
developments in the field of diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer. The reports may
also include updates to the WCRF/AICR recommendations.
The updated recommendations will be used by the WCRF/AICR education and media
relation departments to inform the general public both of the benefits of a healthy
lifestyle and of the developments in science that underpin these recommendations.
