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Dietary fibre and colon cancer: where do we go from here?

The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society - 1 Feb 2003

Hill Michael

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The relationship between intake of dietary fibre and risk of colon cancer has been studied for 30 years and still the data are inconclusive. There are many possible reasons for this outcome, and they include a failure to consider exposure to dietary fibre separately by source, or colon cancers separately by subsite. These potential confounders have been known for at least 20 years. However, the disease is...

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PMID: 12740059
DOI: 10.1079/PNS2002238

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