ArticleEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2019
Processed meat and risk of selected digestive tract and laryngeal cancers.
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- Red and processed meat consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Red and processed meat and pancreatic cancer risk: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Red and processed meat consumption and esophageal cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020Pooled it
- Health effects associated with alcohol consumption: a Burden of Proof study.Nature health · 2026Article
- Causal relationships between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and laryngeal cancer risk: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Food & nutrition research · 2025Article
- Dietary Heat-Treatment Contaminants Exposure and Cancer: A Case Study from Turkey.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Consumption of Thermally Processed Meat Containing Carcinogenic Compounds (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines) versus a Risk of Some Cancers in Humans and the Possibility of Reducing Their Formation by Natural Food Additives-A Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- The 2018 Revision of Italian Dietary Guidelines: Development Process, Novelties, Main Recommendations, and Policy Implications.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Isolation of Antibacterial, Nitrosylmyoglobin Forming Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Potential Use in Meat Processing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
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objectivesTo assess the association between processed meat and the risk of selected digestive tract and laryngeal cancers. SUBJECTS/
methodsWe conducted a series of case-control studies between 1985 and 2007 in Italy. The studies included a total of 1475 cases of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, 1077 of the larynx, 716 of the esophagus, 999 of the stomach, 684 of the liver, 159 of the biliary tract, 688 of the pancreas, and a total of 9720 controls. Odds ratios (ORs), and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs), were estimated by unconditional logistic regression models, including terms for socio-demographic factors, tobacco smoking, and alcohol intake.
resultsCompared to the lowest tertile of processed meat consumption, the ORs for subjects in the highest one were 1.18 (95% CI 0.98-1.43) for oral cavity and pharyngeal, 1.51 (95% CI 1.18-1.91) for esophageal, 1.19 (95% CI 0.96-1.47) for laryngeal, 0.98 (95% CI 0.81-1.18) for stomach, 0.85 (95% CI 0.51-1.40) for biliary tract, 1.20 (95% CI 0.94-1.54) for liver, and 1.46 (95% CI 1.15-1.85) for pancreatic cancers.
conclusionsOur findings support the hypothesis that high processed meat consumption increases esophageal and pancreatic cancers risk. Residual confounding by socio-demographic factors, tobacco smoking, and alcohol intake may, partly or largely, account for these associations. We found no overall association with other digestive tract and laryngeal cancers.
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