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Dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk in the Physicians’ Health Study.

High prostate cancer risk may be associated with high consumption of calcium from dairy products.

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  • 2001
  • Chan JM1, Stampfer MJ, Ma J, Gann PH, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci EL.
  • Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. june.chan@channing.harvard.edu
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • CA34944/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States; CA40360/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States; CA42182/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States; CA58684/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States; HL26490/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States; HL34595/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States; T32-CA-09001/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
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A large prospective study of meat consumption and colorectal cancer risk: an investigation of potential mechanisms underlying this association.

High intake of red and processed meat may promote the development of colorectal cancer in men and women.

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  • 2010
  • Cross AJ1, Ferrucci LM, Risch A, Graubard BI, Ward MH, Park Y, Hollenbeck AR, Schatzkin A, Sinha R.
  • Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA. crossa@mail.nih.gov
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • This research was supported [in part] by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute.
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Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension.

Medically supervised water-only fasting therapy may be a safe and effective treatment for hypertension.

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Caffeinated beverage intake and reproductive hormones among premenopausal women in biocycle study.

Caffeine and caffeinated beverages may either increase or decrease serum estradiol concentrations in healthy premenopausal women, apparently depending on the race.

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  • 2012
  • Schliep KC1, Schisterman EF, Mumford SL, Pollack AZ, Zhang C, Ye A, Stanford JB, Hammoud AO, Porucznik CA, Wactawski-Wende J.
  • Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Associations between red meat intake and biomarkers of inflammation and glucose metabolism in women.

High consumption of red meat is linked to unhealthy inflammation and glucose metabolic profile in women.

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  • 2013
  • Sylvia H Ley, Qi Sun, Walter C Willett, A Heather Eliassen, Kana Wu, An Pan, Fran Grodstein, Frank B Hu
  • From the Departments of Nutrition (SHL, QS, WCW, KW, AP, and FBH) and Epidemiology (WCW, FG, and FBH), Harvard School of Public Health, and the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (QS, WCW, AHE, FG, and FBH), Boston, MA; and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore (AP).
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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A prospective study on intake of animal products and risk of prostate cancer.

High intake of dairy products, red, and processed meat may increase metastatic cancer risk, but it is not associated with the development of the advanced form of the disease.

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  • 2001
  • Michaud DS, Augustsson K, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Willet WC, Giovannucci E.
  • Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. michaudd@mail.nih.gov
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • CA 55075/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States HL 35464/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States
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The association of red and processed meat and dietary fibre with colorectal cancer in UK Biobank.

High intake of red and processed meat may increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer, while high dietary fiber consumption is not positively associated with the development of the disease.

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  • 2015
  • K. E Bradbury, T. J Key
  • Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University, Oxford OX3 7LF
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Pancreatic cancer risk: associations with meat-derived carcinogen intake in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial (PLCO) cohort.

High consumption of well-cooked meat may increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

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  • 2012
  • Anderson KE, Mongin SJ, Sinha R, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Gross MD, Ziegler RG, Mabie JE, Risch A, Kazin SS, Church TR.
  • Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Total cholesterol and cancer risk in a large prospective study in Korea.

Depending on the site, high consumption of cholesterol may increase cancer development risk in healthy adults.

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Research Summary Information

  • 2011
  • Kitahara CM, Berrington de González A, Freedman ND, Huxley R, Mok Y, Jee SH, Samet JM.
  • National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • Supported by Grant No. 10526 from Korean Seoul City Research and Grant No. 0920330 from the National Research and Development Program for Cancer Control, Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Republic of Korea. This study was also supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Whole milk intake is associated with prostate cancer-specific mortality among U.S male physicians.

High intake of dairy products may elevate prostate cancer development, progression, and mortality risk.

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  • 2013
  • Song Y, Chavarro JE, Cao Y, Qiu W, Mucci L, Sesso HD, Stampfer MJ, Giovannucci E, Pollak M, Liu S, Ma J.
  • Department of Epidemiology and Program on Genomics and Nutrition, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Red meat and processed meat consumption and all-caused mortality: a meta-analysis.

Low intake of red and processed meat may diminish all-cause mortality risk.

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Red meat consumption and mortality: results from two prospective cohort studies.

Eating large quantities of red meat may be associated with elevated total, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk.

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  • 2012
  • Pan A, Sun Q, Bernstein AM, Schulze MB, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Hu FB.
  • Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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