It's known that among women in the world, this type of cancer is the biggest cause of mortality, so a lot has been done in campaigning and research to find ways to fight it - now, it has been found that, with the right education, nutrition's breast cancer effects could go on to keep the cancer from coming back on former patients.

A new study has shown that, for former patients of this type of tumor, education on nutrition's breast cancer effects include the lowering of possibilities that the cancer will reappear in the women who have gone through a reeducation process regarding their eating habits.

According to Science Daily, the new study about nutrition and breast cancer was created by Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, is entitled "Nutrition Education Intervention for Women With Breast Cancer: Effect on Nutritional Factors and Oxidative Stress" and was published on the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Sadly, Brazil is a country where nutrition and breast cancer investigations might be more necessary than in most places, due to the fact that the counry's survival rate for this type of cancer is only 58.4 percent.

In it, according to Fox News, there were eighteen breast cancer patients that were educated during 12 months (a whole year) about proper nutrition, while another group made of 75 patients didn't receive any education.

Those patients that had been intervened consumed bout 50 percent less red meat as well as processed ones, when compared to those in the control group; the latter patients gained about twice the body weight as their peers who had been educated otherwise; this type of weight gain as well as excessive consumption of red and processed meat have been often linked with cancer recurrence.

"Although the sample size was small and data were collected at different times," said lead author Cecilia C. Schiavon, according to Eureka Alert in regards to the nutrition and breast cancer discovery, "this study provides evidence that women undergoing breast cancer treatment might benefit from immediate, individualized and detailed nutrition monitoring."