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Cancer-fighting foods cropping up by the dozen

Broccoli, the stalky green vegetable long sniffed at by children and even a U.S. president, is one of a growing number of common foods that may help stop breast cancer before it starts.

For years, scientists who theorized that women could avoid breast cancer by eating foods packed with certain chemical compounds were regarded as renegades.

Now some of those theories are producing intriguing...

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