Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?

Timothy J Key; Kathryn E Bradbury; Aurora Perez-Cornago; Rashmi Sinha; Konstantinos K Tsilidis; Shoichiro Tsugane

doi:10.1136/bmj.m511

Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?

BMJ. 2020 Mar 5:368:m511. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m511.

Authors

Timothy J Key¹, Kathryn E Bradbury², Aurora Perez-Cornago³, Rashmi Sinha⁴, Konstantinos K Tsilidis^{5

6}, Shoichiro Tsugane⁷

Affiliations

¹ Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK tim.key@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
² National Institute for Health Innovation, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
³ Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁷ Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Timothy J Key and colleagues describe the evidence linking diet and nutrition to cancer risk, concluding that obesity and alcohol are the most important factors

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Diet / adverse effects*
Energy Intake / physiology
Humans
Neoplasms / etiology*
Neoplasms / prevention & control
Nutritional Status*
Risk

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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