Red meat & the pancreas.People who eat more beef or pork, especially in processed meats like hot dogs, sausage, and bacon, have a higher risk of pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer Malignant tumour of the pancreas. Risk factors include smoking, a diet high in fat, exposure to certain industrial products, and diseases such as diabetes and chronic pancreatitis. Pancreatic cancer is more common in men. , says the largest study that has tracked healthy people for years before they were diagnosed with the deadly illness. The Multiethnic mul·ti·eth·nic adj. Of, relating to, or including several ethnic groups. Adj. 1. multiethnic - involving several ethnic groups multi-ethnic Cohort Study A cohort study is a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and social science. It is one type of study design. In medicine, it is usually undertaken to obtain evidence to try to refute the existence of a suspected association between cause and disease; failure to refute followed more than 190,000 residents of California and Hawaii for seven years. Those who reported eating the most beef or pork (but not fish, poultry, dairy foods, or eggs) had a 50 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer than those who reported eating the least. Those who said they ate the most processed meats (roughly one ounce a day for a 2,000-calorie diet) had about a 70 percent higher risk than those who said they ate the least (no more than around an ounce a week). The researchers calculated that the pancreatic cancer rate was about 40 out of 100,000 for those who ate the most processed meat in this study, but only half as high for those who ate the least. They suggest that carcinogens Carcinogens Substances in the environment that cause cancer, presumably by inducing mutations, with prolonged exposure. Mentioned in: Colon Cancer, Rectal Cancer caused by cooking red meat at high temperatures or the nitrites in processed meats may explain the link. What to do: Until more studies are done, it's not certain that processed or red meat causes pancreatic cancer. But it's worth cutting back anyway to reduce the risk of heart disease and colon cancer colon cancer, cancer of any part of the colon (often called the large intestine). Colon cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. . Journal of the National Cancer Institute 97: 1458, 2005. |
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