ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2022
Plant-Based Diets and Cancer Risk: What is the Evidence?
Review in Current nutrition reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets: An umbrella review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
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- Plant-Based Diets and Ovarian Cancer Risk.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Cancer Prevention and Therapy With Nutritional Science: Addressing the Gap in Medical Education and Practice.MedComm · 2025Review
- Understanding how foods and enteral feedings influence the gut microbiome.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025Review
- Studying the Role of Vegetarianism as a Potential Strategy for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, a Bibliometric Analysis.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review of Quercetin's Role as a Bioactive Compound in Female Reproductive Disorders.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Dietary Restrictions and Cancer Prevention: State of the Art.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Plant-Based Functional Foods from Borneo.Nutrients · 2025Review
- New Insights into Aspirin's Anticancer Activity: The Predominant Role of Its Iron-Chelating Antioxidant Metabolites.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- MicroRNAs and the Mediterranean diet: a nutri-omics perspective for lung cancer.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Spontaneous Tumor Regression and Reversion: Insights and Associations with Reduced Dietary Phosphate.Cancers · 2024Review
- Green Cancer Prevention and Beyond.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Review
- The Dairy and Cancer Controversy: Milking the Evidence.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- Dietary Patterns Associated with Breast Cancer in the Middle East: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Can a Low-Phosphate Diet for Chronic Kidney Disease Treat Cancer? An Interdisciplinary Literature Review.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Chitosan Nanoparticles Loaded withPharmaceutics · 2023Article
- The Impact of Modern Dietary Practices on Cancer Risk and Progression: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe purpose of this review is to summarize the recent (past 5 years) available evidence regarding the association between plant-based diets on cancer risk from clinical trials and observational studies. Biological mechanisms and gaps in the current literature will also be discussed. RECENT
findingsThere is a lack of intervention studies but there are abundant observational studies assessing the association between plant-based diets and cancer risk, including multiple longitudinal cohort studies and similar data from case-control studies that demonstrate a decreased overall cancer risk with plant-based diets. Case-control studies support a decreased risk of colorectal and breast cancers with plant-based diets, but results for specific cancers remain inconsistent in cohort studies. Current evidence from observational studies indicates an inverse association between plant-based diets and overall cancer risk. Future research should include intervention studies, address inconsistencies in dietary assessment methods and provide greater detail on underrepresented groups.
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