Dietary Patterns and Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Review of 17 Years of Evidence (2000-2016).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a global public health problem, with an estimated 1.4 million cases diagnosed worldwide in 2012. Evidence suggests that diet may be important for primary prevention.

Recent findings

The 2017 WCRF/AICR Continuous Update Project on colorectal cancer concluded that there is convincing evidence linking several individual dietary factors with CRC risk but the evidence for dietary patterns was limited and inconclusive. Also, previous reviews and meta-analyses have not critically synthesized various dietary patterns. This review synthesized data from dietary patterns studies over a 17-year period from 2000 to 2016.

Summary

We included 49 studies (28 cohort and 21 case-control) that examined the association of index-based and empir

SUBMITTER: Tabung FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794031 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature