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Multivitamins linked to lower risk of rectal ca: cut by 34% at 15 years.(Clinical Rounds)
WASHINGTON -- Adults who reported taking multivitamins for at least 15 years had a 34% reduction in their risk for developing rectal cancer, Esther K. Wei, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Dr. Wei, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, Boston, and her colleagues analyzed data on 87,960 women from the Nurses' Health Study starting in 1980 and 47,230 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study starting in 1986.
Those with cancer, Crohn's disease, or ulcerative colitis were excluded from the study The researchers asked participants whether they had been diagnosed with rectal cancer during the past 2 years, and physicians confirmed a total of 299 cases of rectal cancer (179 women, 120 men). The study controlled for several ...
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