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Raw versus Cooked Vegetables and Cancer Risk

Overview of attention for article published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, September 2004
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Title
Raw versus Cooked Vegetables and Cancer Risk
Published in
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, September 2004
DOI 10.1158/1055-9965.1422.13.9
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lilli B. Link, John D. Potter

Abstract

This review of the medical literature from 1994 to 2003 summarizes the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and cancer risk and examines whether they may affect cancer risk differently. Twenty-eight studies examined the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and risk for various cancers. Twenty-one studies assessed raw, but not cooked, vegetables and cancer risk. The majority of these assessed risk of oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, lung, gastric, and colorectal cancers. Most showed that vegetables, raw or cooked, were inversely related to these cancers. However, more consistent results were found for oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, and gastric cancers. Nine of the 11 studies of raw and cooked vegetables showed statistically significant inverse relationships of these cancers with raw vegetables, but only 4 with cooked vegetables. The few studies of breast, lung, and colorectal cancers also suggested an inverse relationship with both raw and cooked vegetables, but these results were less consistent. In the two studies of prostate cancer, there was no association with either raw or cooked vegetables. One of two bladder cancer studies found an inverse relationship with cooked, but not raw, vegetables. Possible mechanisms by which cooking affects the relationship between vegetables and cancer risk include changes in availability of some nutrients, destruction of digestive enzymes, and alteration of the structure and digestibility of food. Both raw and cooked vegetable consumption are inversely related to epithelial cancers, particularly those of the upper gastrointestinal tract, and possibly breast cancer; however, these relationships may be stronger for raw vegetables than cooked vegetables.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 103 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 21%
Student > Bachelor 18 17%
Researcher 12 11%
Student > Postgraduate 10 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 8%
Other 24 23%
Unknown 11 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 10%
Engineering 6 6%
Chemistry 4 4%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 15 14%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 138. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2024.
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#1
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