Food Tips for Thanksgiving from the NFCR

Dr. Lenz

I wanted to come up with some recommendations on diet over this Thanksgiving holiday. Searching the web and looking for advice to give you,  I came across a wonderful website  — TOP TEN FOOD tips by the National Foundation for Cancer Research — I wanted to share with you.

Here’s what they said. Continue reading…

Posted by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD on November 25th, 2009
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Tags: diet, Preventing Colorectal Cancer

Lawsuit Demands Warning Label on Hotdogs

The Cancer Project has filed suit against five hot dog makers to require them to put cancer-risk warning labels on hot dog packages. The labels would read “Warning: Consuming hot dogs and other processed meats increases the risk of cancer.”

The suit, filed on behalf of three New Jersey residents, is a class action consumer fraud action, saying that Nathan’s Famous, Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer, Sara Lee, Con Agra Foods, and Marathon Enterprises knew that eating processed meats increased cancer risk but didn’t warn consumers. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on August 9th, 2009
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Tags: colorectal cancer prevention, diet, processed met

Colorectal Cancer News in Brief: August 7

Research has found aspirin or resistant starch doesn’t help people with Lynch syndrome avoid new polyps.  While almost all people had seen a cancer-related ad, very few actually got a prescription for the advertised drug. People who followed a low-fat, high-fiber diet most carefully had fewer new polyps.

A Johns Hopkins team has developed SUDS — a device for cleaning ER equipment that wipes out dangerous bacteria and keeps it from returning for several days.  The Caring Connection will help you find advance directive forms and instructions for your state. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on August 7th, 2009
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Tags: advance directives prevention, advertising, diet, Lynch syndrome, polyps

Colorectal Cancer News in Brief: July 7

News in Brief catches up today after celebrating the Fourth of July with swimming, sailing, and time with family.  We hope you had as good a time relaxing as we did.

Research shows that children whose parents have cancer have more social and psychological problems, mice who are fed a high-fat Western-style diet don’t benefit from exercise and develop more colon polyps, and adding irinotecan to 5FU after surgery to remove liver mets adds no benefit but has more serious side effects.

The VA is upgrading equipment to sterilize endoscopes and train staff to clean them properly with $26 million from its reserve funds.  Two scientists at MIT are sampling and freezing their own stools each day to study changing patterns of millions of  microbes in the intestinal tract. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on July 7th, 2009
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Tags: diet, intestinal microbes, liver metastases, parents with cancer, VA

Diet and Cancer Risk Differ between Races

What you eat can increase your risk for rectal cancer . . . or reduce it.  But race makes a difference too.

Whites had an increased risk of rectal cancer when their diets had lots of refined grains and white potatoes, while African Americans risk was increased with fruit and added sugar.

The North Carolina Colon Cancer Study studied diet patterns and colorectal cancer risk among whites and African Americans with rectal cancer and matched controls.  They identified three major eating patterns and found that risk for rectal cancer differed between the two racial groups. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on May 11th, 2009
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Tags: diet, rectal cancer risk