Red meat and colon cancer
There was a retrospective cohort study in today’s JAMA linking red meat consumption with colon cancer. There has always been some controversy correlating the two factors – this study is one of the larger cohort studies suggesting a link:
The participants who consistently ate the most red meat and processed meats had a 50 percent higher rate colorectal cancer than those who ate the least red or processed meat.
Prolonged high consumption of poultry and fish was marginally associated with about a 25 percent lower risk of colon cancer, but not rectal cancer.
