Our Global Network is dedicated to funding research and health education programmes into the links between food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and cancer risk.
Journal publications
Selected findings from the Continuous Update Project have been/will be published in peer reviewed medical journals.
The details of papers published to date and links to their abstracts in PubMed are shown by cancer type below.
Colorectal cancer
Recent Evidence for Colorectal Cancer Prevention Through Healthy Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity: Implications for Recommendations.
Perera PS, Thompson RL & Wiseman MJ.
Curr Nutr Rep. 2012
DOI 10.1007/s13668-011-0006-7Abstract
Dairy products and colorectal cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
Aune D, Lau R, Chan DS, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
Ann Oncol. 2012; 23: 37-45. Abstract
Meta-analyses of vitamin D intake, 25-hydroxyvitamin D status, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and colorectal cancer risk.
Touvier M, Chan DS, Lau R,
Aune D, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E, Riboli E, Hercberg S & Norat T.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomakers Prev. 2011; 20: 1003-16. Abstract
Nonlinear reduction in risk for colorectal cancer by fruit and vegetable intake based on meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aune D, Lau R, Chan DS, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
Gastroenterology 2011; 141: 106-18.Abstract
Red and processed meat and colorectal cancer incidence: meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Chan DS, Lau R, Aune D, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
PLoS ONE. 2011; 6: e20456. Abstract
Dietary fibre, whole grains, and risk of colorectal cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.
Aune D, Chan DSM, Lau R, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
BMJ 2011; 343:d6617 Nov 10. Abstract
Pancreatic cancer
Body mass index, abdominal fatness and pancreatic cancer risk: a systematic review and non-linear dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aune D, Greenwood DC, Chan DS, Vieira R, Vieira AR, Navarro-Rosenblatt DA, Cade JE, Burley VJ & Norat T.
Ann Oncol. 2011 Sept 2. Abstract
Breast cancer
Dietary fiber and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aune D, Chan DSM, Greenwood DC, Vieira AR, Rosenblatt DAN, Vieira R & Norat T.
Ann Oncol. 2012 Jan 10. Abstract