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
Red and processed meat intake and risk of colorectal adenomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
Aune D, Chan DS, Vieira AR, Navarro Rosenblatt DA, R Vieira, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
Cancer Causes Control. 2013 Feb 5 Abstract
Carbohydrates, glycaemic index, glycaemic load, and colorectal cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
Aune D, Chan DS, Lau R, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Kampman E & Norat T.
Cancer Causes Control. 2012; 23(4): 521-535. Abstract
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
Height and pancreatic cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
Aune D, Vieira AR, Chan DS, Navarro-Rosenblatt DA, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Cade JE, Burley VJ & Norat T.
Cancer Causes Control. 2012; 23(8): 1213-22.Abstract
Dietary fructose, carbohydrates, glycemic indices and pancreatic cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
Aune D, Chan DS, Vieira AR, Navarro-Rosenblatt DA, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, Cade JE, Burley VJ & Norat T.
Ann Oncol. 2012; 23(10): 2536-46. Abstract
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; 23(4): 843-52. Abstract
Breast cancer
Dietary compared with blood concentrations of carotenoids and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aune D, Chan DS, Vieira AR, Navarro Rosenblatt DA, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, & Norat T.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2012; 96(2): 356-73. Abstract
Fruits, vegetables and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
Aune D, Chan DS, Vieira AR, Rosenblatt DA, Vieira R, Greenwood DC, & Norat T.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012; 134(2): 479-93. Abstract
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; 23(6):1394-402. Abstract
Prostate cancer
Selenium and prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Hurst R, Hooper L, Norat T, Lau R, Aune D, Greenwood DC, Vieira R, Collings R, Harvey LJ, Sterne JA, Beynon R, Savovic J & Fairweather-Tait SJ.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2012; 96(1): 111-22. Abstract