Sunday, March 17, 2013

snack foods can double the risk of colon cancer





Dutch researchers have published the results of their work in the journal, Cancer that explains how eating unhealthy snack foods may increase the risk of colorectal cancer in people with a genetic susceptibility to certain types of cancer. Although this study focused on patients with a condition known as Lynch syndrome, an inherited syndrome caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes and characterized by development of colorectal cancer, and other cancers at an early age, the results are relevant to all individuals that consume a diet of processed snack foods.

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