Cancer in British vegetarians: updated analyses of 4998 incident cancers in a cohort of 32,491 meat eaters, 8612 fish eaters, 18,298 vegetarians, and 2246 vegans.

BACKGROUND: Vegetarian diets might affect the risk of cancer.OBJECTIVE: The objective was to describe cancer incidence in vegetarians and nonvegetarians in a large sample in the United Kingdom.DESIGN: This was a pooled analysis of 2 prospective studies including 61,647 British men and women comprisi...

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Main Authors: Key, T, Appleby, P, Crowe, F, Bradbury, K, Schmidt, J, Travis, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Nutrition 2014