Diet, exercise, common drugs lower colorectal cancer risk.(Disease/Disorder overview)

Publication: Internal Medicine News

Publication Date: 15-JUN-06

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Colorectal cancer risk reduction has been found to be highly associated with the use of several over-the-counter and prescription drugs, as well as with exercise and consumption of vegetables, in a large ongoing chemoprevention study in Israel.

Low-dose aspirin and statins, for example, each appeared to be protective in the case-control Molecular Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer (MECC) study.

Combined, the protective benefit of the two drugs appeared to be even more powerful, reducing by 60% the relative risk of colorectal cancer in healthy adults, said Dr. Gad Rennert, director of the CHS National Israeli Cancer Control Center in Haifa.

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