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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(21):1706-1707; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.21.1706
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 21, 1706-1707, November 1, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Colorectal Cancer: Does It Matter if You Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables?

Andrew Flood, Arthur Schatzkin

Affiliation of authors: Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence to: Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., National Institutes of Health, Executive Plaza North, Rm. 211, 6130 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852 (e-mail: schatzka@mail.nih.gov).

Epidemiologists have long regarded vegetables and fruits as key features of a diet associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer. In 1997, the American Institute for Cancer Research (1) assembled a panel of leading epidemiologists and basic scientists to review the literature covering the links between all aspects of diet and the causation of all types of cancer. That panel gave its highest rating for degree of scientific certainty to vegetables as a component of diet that would reduce risk of colorectal cancer. For fruits, the evidence is more limited—in fact, the American Institute for Cancer Research panel . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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