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Associations of red and processed meat with survival among patients with cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract and lung
Eating red and processed meats is tied to higher mortality risk among patients with lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancer.
This study evaluated how high dietary ingestion of red and processed meats affects an individual's odds of surviving a diagnosis of lung and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer. Researchers analyzed the nutritional habits and death records of 1212 patients diagnosed with lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancer.
Researchers identified a harmful association between a diet high in red and processed meats and mortality from lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancer. This association was observed to be stronger for upper aerodigestive tract cancer than for lung cancer. The findings of this study revealed that the risk of dying from lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancer increased with the intake of red and processed meats.
Research Summary Information
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2016
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Fayth L Miles, Shen-Chih Chang, Hal Morgenstern, Donald Tashkin, Jian-Yu Rao, Wendy Cozen, Thomas Mack, Qing-Yi Lu, Zuo-Feng Zhang
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Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: zfzhang@ucla.edu.
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