Investigators at Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Publish New Data on Epidemiology

2011 FEB 1 -- Current study results from the report, 'Fruit and vegetables and cancer risk,' have been published. According to a study from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "The possibility that fruit and vegetables may help to reduce the risk of cancer has been studied for over 30 years, but no protective effects have been firmly established. For cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract, epidemiological studies have generally observed that people with a relatively high intake of fruit and vegetables have a moderately reduced risk, but these observations must be interpreted cautiously because of potential confounding by smoking and alcohol."

"For lung cancer,...

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