ReviewThe American journal of clinical nutrition2014
Meat, dairy, and cancer.
Review in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.
- How to Keep the Balance between Red and Processed Meat Intake and Physical Activity Regarding Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary Patterns and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies.Current nutrition reports · 2023Pooled it
- Influence of the vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diet on the oral health status in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Evidence-based dentistry · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary meat mutagens intake and cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Beef Protein Effects on Gut Microbiota: Implications for Health.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Dairy Products: Is There an Impact on Promotion of Prostate Cancer? A Review of the Literature.Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.PLoS medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Dietary Intake of Meat Cooking-Related Mutagens (HCAs) and Risk of Colorectal Adenoma and Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- A review and meta-analysis of prospective studies of red and processed meat, meat cooking methods, heme iron, heterocyclic amines and prostate cancer.Nutrition journal · 2015Pooled it
- Red and Processed Meat Consumption Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A PRISMA-Compliant Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- Iterative development of Vegethon: a theory-based mobile app intervention to increase vegetable consumption.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Trial
- Consumption of Dairy Products and Cognitive Functioning: Findings from the SU.VI.MAX 2 Study.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2016Trial
- Nutrition as Modulator of Oxidative Stress in Cancer Prevention and Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Lifestyle and environmental risk factors associated with cancer: A case-control study in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2026Article
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of health outcomes following diabetes risk reduction diet (DRRD).Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Harmonised assessment of environmental impacts from diets and dietary scenarios: sustainability and protein intake in eleven European countries.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Cancer Prevention and Therapy With Nutritional Science: Addressing the Gap in Medical Education and Practice.MedComm · 2025Review
- Cardiovascular Disease Meets Cancer: Exploring the Epidemiology in China and Homotherapy Targeting Intersectional Mechanisms.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
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Abstract
In 2007 the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) report judged that the evidence for an association between red and processed meat consumption and colorectal cancer was convincing. In addition, the effect of other animal products on cancer risk has been studied, and the WCRF/AICR report concluded that milk probably decreases the risk of colorectal cancer but diets high in calcium probably increase the risk of prostate cancer, whereas there was limited evidence for an association between milk and bladder cancer and insufficient evidence for other cancers. There are several potential mechanisms relating meat to cancer, including heterocyclic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-nitroso compounds, and heme iron. Although the evidence in favor of a link between red and processed meat and colorectal cancer is convincing, the relations with other cancers are unclear. In this review, we summarize cohort studies conducted by the National Cancer Institute on meat and dairy intake in relation to cancer since the 2007 WCRF/AICR report. We also report the findings of meta-analyses published since 2007.
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