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Consuming red meat and processed meats may not increase the risk of death from recurrence of colon cancer, according to international research. Red and processed meats have been consistently linked to increased cancer risk, the researchers say, leading to advice against eating too much of it for those who have already had cancer. However, the researchers recruited a cohort of about 1000 people with stage III colon cancer and tracked their outcomes over an average of six and a half years compared with their red and processed meat intake. Of the patients who died or saw a recurrence of their cancer, the researchers say there was no increased risk for those who ate more red and processed meats.
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What The Study Did: In this observational study examining self-reported dietary behavior of 1,011 patients with stage III colon cancer, eating either unprocessed red meat or processed meat after diagnosis wasn’t significantly associated with risk of colon cancer recurrence or mortality.
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