A recent report from Sweden looked at the amount of dairy products women had in their diet and their chances of getting ovarian cancer.  What they found was that women who had four portions a day, or more, of dairy products, or who drank 2 or more glasses of milk a day, had an increased chance of getting ovarian cancer.

Putting these figures in perspective, of more than 16,000 women who said they ha less than 2 portions of dairy products a day, 61 developed ovarian cancer, whilst of over 12,000 women who said they had four or more portions, 69 developed ovarian cancer.  Put another way, 1 in every 267 women on the low dairy intake diet got a cancer of the ovary, whereas 1 in every 180 women on he high intake diet did.

Overall these figures do suggest that a high intake of dairy products could lead to a light increase in the chance of getting an ovarian cancer, and this has been suggested by other studies in the past.

Dairy products are rich in fat, and high fat diets are generally considered to be unhealthy.  So although a diet rich in dairy products probably only has a small effect on the risk of getting ovarian cancer, a low or modest fat intake does have other health benefits besides.