Intake of dairy products and risk of colorectal neoplasia.
Studies have shown that 1000 to 2000 mg of calcium per day may reduce colorectal adenoma recurrence. Dairy products contain calcium ,vitamin D other potential chemopreventive components.
Wood dust exposure and the risk of upper aero-digestive and respiratory cancers in males.
Wood dust is a human carcinogen that can cause sino-nasal cancers.
This study also shows that wood dust exposure is a potential risk factor for upper aero-digestive tract and respiratory cancers
Dairy Food, Calcium, and Risk of Cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
This study was done over an average of 7 years. Total cancer was lower in women but not in men with the maximal benefit at 1300 mg per day. Colorectal cancer was lower in both men and women.
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Exercise in prevention and management of cancer.
OPINION STATEMENT: Regular and vigorous physical exercise has been scientifically established as providing strong preventative medicine against cancer with the potential to reduce incidence by 40%. The effect is strongest for breast and colorectal cancer; however, evidence is accumulating for the protective influence on prostate cancer, although predominantly for more advanced disease and in older men…
Cruciferous vegetable consumption and lung cancer risk: a systematic review.
Cruciferous vegetables are rich in isothiocyanates and this review states that they can reduce the risk of lung cancer by 22%.
Dietary chemopreventive phytochemicals: too little or too much?
Some dietary phytochemicals seem to offer protection in an exposure-related manner and many molecular targets and signaling pathways affected by phytochemicals have been discovered.
Cancer Prev Res (Phila Pa). 2009 Jul;2(7):611-6.
Do monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) in olive have a protective effect on cancer?
Olive oil and health: Summary of the II international conference on olive oil and health consensus report, Jaén and Córdoba (Spain) 2008.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2010 Mar 18.
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Dietary fiber and stomach cancer risk: a case-control study from Italy.
This study found an inverse relationship between stomach cancer risk and various types of fiber, derived, in particular, from vegetables and fruit.
Cancer Causes Control. 2009 Aug;20(6):847-53.