FW: Pancreatic cancer and diet

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Hi All,

The below is not in Medline yet but is PDF-available.

Pancreatic cancer follows the major cancer in incidence, hits women more and

has been increasing.

The paper found little effect of weight, but was surprising in that foods

many sneer at, turnips and rutabagas, were great for prevention, while

vitamins, which people associated with healthy lifestyle was bad. I would

have thought vitamins would help and things like broccoli would shine.

Variety seems good, and it did not take much of the turnips and rutabagas to

do the job. Skip the sodas and get any amount to tea it seems.

ls of Epidemiology, 12, 395-401

Lifestyle and Other Risk Factors for Thyroid Cancer in Los Angeles County

Females

“Diet

….. Consumption of turnips and rutabagas significantly reduced thyroid

cancer risk (Table 2). OR estimates were not different for consumption a few

times a year and at least monthly. Subjects from the 1980¯81 case

ascertainment period provided data regarding consumption of milk, vitamin

use, and crash dieting. ….. A trend of increasing risk with greater duration

of multivitamin use was of borderline significance in the total sample

(p-trend = 0.07) and highly significant in the papillary subsample (p-trend

= 0.004). ……..

The 147 case-control pairs from the 1982-83 case …. risk increased with the

number of caffeinated sodas consumed (p-trend = 0.04 in total sample and

0.03 in papillary subsample), and decreased with more glasses of wine

consumed (p-trend = 0.10 in total sample and 0.047 in papillary subsample…….

Women who drank at least three daily cups of caffeinated tea had a

significantly reduced risk of thyroid cancer; trends in risk with

caffeinated tea were not significant.

Body Weight and Body Mass

Body weight and body mass index ……. In the highest quartile of weight gain

(more than 21 pounds) from age 18, thyroid cancer risk was non-significantly

elevated (total sample, 76 cases, 61 controls exposed, OR = 1.6, 95% CI =

0.9¯3.0, p-trend = 0.19; papillary subsample, 54 cases, 50 controls exposed,

OR = 1.4, 95% CI = 0.7¯2.6, p-trend = 0.40).”

This follows up on the second paper I gave earlier, but bears remembering.

The PDF is also available.

“Eat more of different varieties that are healthy not just more of healthy

foods with limited variety; this is more important than eating not healthy

foods”, is what the below seems to say.

Again, eating loads of only broccoli may be not the way to go.

Cheers, Al.

Michels KB, Wolk A.

A prospective study of variety of healthy foods and mortality in women.

Int J Epidemiol. 2002 Aug;31(4):847-54.

PMID: 12177033 [PubMed - in process]

Alan Pater, Ph.D.; Faculty of Medicine; Memorial University; St. 's, NF

A1B 3V6 Canada; Tel. No.: (709) 777-6488; Fax No.: (709) 777-7010; email:

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