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. 2020 Mar 5:368:m511.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m511.

Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?

Timothy J Key  1 , Kathryn E Bradbury  2 , Aurora Perez-Cornago  3 , Rashmi Sinha  4 , Konstantinos K Tsilidis  5   6 , Shoichiro Tsugane  7
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Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?

Timothy J Key et al. BMJ. .

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Abstract

Timothy J Key and colleagues describe the evidence linking diet and nutrition to cancer risk, concluding that obesity and alcohol are the most important factors

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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Fig 1
Fig 1
Body mass index (BMI), alcohol, and cancer risk. Convincing associations according to the World Cancer Research Fund or the International Agency for Research on Cancer (marked by asterisks), or both, with relative risks from meta-analyses. We also consider the association between BMI and risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women to be convincing. RR, relative risk (plotted with squares proportional to amount of statistical information); CI, confidence interval
Fig 2
Fig 2
Percentages of cancer cases in the UK attributable to different exposures.
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