Vegetarians ‘less prone to cancer’
People with a vegetarian diet could be less prone to developing cancer, according to a new UK study.
Recent research looked at some 52,700 men and women and indicated that those who did not eat meat had less incidences of the disease.
Study leader Professor Tim Key, a Cancer Research UK epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, said there was much confusion about the way diet is linked to cancer.
"It’s interesting - it suggests there might be some reduction in cancers in vegetarians and fish-eaters and we need to look carefully at that," he remarked.
However, he added: "It doesn’t support the idea that vegetarians would have lower rates of colorectal cancer and I think it means we need to think more carefully about how meat fits into it."
It was recently reported that a new screening method could reduce the number of women who die from ovarian cancer.
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