cucumbers and colorectal cancer.
Data about cucumbers was provided by 2 cohorts. No associations were found with colon or rectal cancer risk.
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Data about cucumbers was provided by 2 cohorts. No associations were found with colon or rectal cancer risk.
| More information: back to literature review.|
| Author | Cohort name | Subjects | Years of follow-up | Cases | End point | Consumption of | Relative Risk (RR) | Adjustments |
| 6) Michels KB. (2000) | The Nurses' Health Study & The Health Professionals' Follow-up Study. | 88,764 women aged 34-59 and 47,325 men aged 40-75. (USA) | Women: 16 (1980-1996). Men: 10 (1986-1996) | 1,181? (937 colon cancer [368 men, 569 women], 244 rectal cancer [89 men, 155 women]) | Colorectal cancer risk | cucumber | Intake of individual vegetables that constitute the composite items was not appreciably associated with colon or rectal cancer risk in women or men (No data shown). Note that cucumber consumption was only measured in 1 (out of 4) of the female FFQs (1986), and in none (out of 2) of the male FFQs. | age, family history of colorectal cancer, sigmoidoscopy, height, body mass index, pack-years of smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity, (women: menopausal status, postmenopausal hormone use,) aspirin use, vitamin supplement intake (ever use of multivitamins or vitamins A, C, or E), total caloric intake, and red meat consumption. |