Posted on 05/20/2021 6:47:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
A new paper in JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that several non-genetic factors — including greater red meat intake, lower educational attainment, and heavier alcohol use — are associated with an increase in colorectal cancer in people under 50.
In the United States, incidence rates of early-onset colorectal cancer have nearly doubled between 1992 and 2013 (from 8.6 to 13.1 per 100,000), with most of this increase due to early-onset cancers of the rectum. Approximately 1 in 10 diagnoses of colorectal cancer in this country occur in people under 50.
Researchers have observed the rise particularly among people born since the 1960s in studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. During the same period there have been major changes in diets among younger generations across the developing world. Such changes include decreases in consumption of fruits, non-potato vegetables, and calcium-rich dairy sources. This is coupled with an increase in processed foods (e.g., meats, pizza, macaroni, and cheese, etc.) and soft drinks. Average nutrient intakes of fiber, folate, and calcium among the U.S. population are also lower than recommended.
The increase in early onset colorectal cancer is concerning to researchers because these cancers often have worse outcomes than those diagnosed in older people. It has led to recommendations that colorectal cancer screening begin at younger ages.
Previous research has outlined potential risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer including greater consumption of processed meat, reduced consumption of vegetables and citrus fruit, greater body mass index, sedentary lifestyles, greater alcohol use, smoking, reduced aspirin use, and diabetes. However, researchers have yet to perform a comprehensive, large-scale evaluation that compares the magnitude of these risks with those for late-onset colorectal cancer and assesses whether the risks for early-onset colorectal cancer correlate with specific types of colorectal cancer.
Using data pooled from 13 population-based studies, researchers here studied 3,767 colorectal cancer cases and 4,049 controls in people under 50 and 23,437 colorectal cancer cases and 35,311 controls in people 50 or above years.
Early-onset colorectal cancer was associated with not regularly using aspirins, greater red meat intake, lower educational attainment, heavier alcohol use, and (interestingly enough) also alcohol abstinence. Researchers also found that lower total fiber intake was linked more strongly to rectal than colon cancer.
Several other colorectal cancer risk factors trended toward an association with early-onset colorectal cancer, including history of diabetes and lower folate, dietary fiber, and calcium intake. However, neither BMI nor smoking were risk factors in the early-onset group, in contrast to the late-onset group.
According to Richard Hayes, the senior investigator for this research: “this first large-scale study of non-genetic risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer is providing the initial basis for targeted identification of those most at risk, which is imperative in mitigating the rising burden of this disease.”
Reference: 20 May 2021, JNCI Cancer Spectrum. DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkab029
This work was funded by the National Cancer Institute under R03-CA215775-02, awarded to Dr Richard Hayes, and through the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO) funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (U01 CA164930, R01 CA201407), awarded to Dr Ulrike Peters. This research was funded in part through the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA015704 and training grant T32HS026120, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR, www.coloncfr.org) is supported in part by funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (award U01 CA167551). The CCFR Set-1 (Illumina 1M/1M-Duo) and Set-2 (Illumina Omni1-Quad) scans were supported by NIH awards U01 CA122839 and R01 CA143247 (to GC). The CCFR Set-3 (Affymetrix Axiom CORECT Set array) was supported by NIH award U19 CA148107 and R01 CA81488 (to SBG). The CCFR Set-4 (Illumina OncoArray 600K SNP array) was supported by NIH award U19 CA148107 (to SBG) and by the Center for Table 3.
But we got paid a huge grant to put something together.
Not sure how a poor education can be translated to increased Colorectal Cancer. All this does is throw it in the mix with things that show increased Colorectal Cancer.
Not saying it isn’t true but there is no correlation in the article. There’s plenty of smart people out there that eat crap.
“Poor education”?? Wow. I had no idea cancer cells could determine that. Idiots.
It’s probably not so much the read meat as it is the white bread that is the bun. More salad, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains. If red meat is a problem it’s because it sits too long. Eat some fiber to keep it moving.
“Poor education?”
That means the entire country is at risk.
My wife had a colonoscopy last week. She was clean as a whistle in terms of polyps. The doctor, who has been in this line of work for over 30 years recommended two things: 1- eat plenty of “live food”, meaning fresh fruits, vegetables and salads, and (this surprised me) 2- avoid bread
I am a heart patient and, with respect to bread, I think I had read or heard before that the processed flour acted something like an abrasive in the blood vessel walls encouraging plaque build-up. If true, that might carry through to the colon.
I am not in the medical field, so I don’t really know. Just trying to navigate through my life trying to learn from what I read and hear.
HPV from sexual contact, not red meat from cows.
Does it have something to do with most academics having their heads up their asses?
My doc said the same. Bread, pasta, cakes, tortillas, sugars, HFCS, all contribute to cholesterol build-up, plaques and arteriosclerosis. ...............
I think we ought to be able to sue alcohol manufacturers for producing a product that turns ugly girls into pretty ones, especially at closing time.
Stop injecting flour into your veins!
Seriously, bread/flour is just sugar as fast as your body is concerned, and it does damage your circulatory system if high levels are maintained for too long.
And colon health largely comes down to feeding beneficial bacteria in your gut complex carbs — non-starchy vegetables.
Exactly.
They misspelled “genetics”
I'm not a farmer, but my neighbors are and their cows eat grass, hay made from grass (in the winter), and some corn. It's hard for me to see that that's so bad.
Wonder if butt sex has anything to do with it. Funny how they never went there.
Cannot tell what it the driveris as I doubt they have controlled variables. Red meat, heavy alcohol, both in combination? High carbs in there too? Sugar? Participants certainly didn’t consume only red meat and alcohol.
Am interested in this as my grandmother died early of colorectal cancer.
I had a co-worker and friend that died at 39 of it!...............
No antibiotics?
No hormone injections?
No molasses mixed feed?...........................
Grass fed IS much better than the other meat farms where they feed concoctions and shoot em up with drugs
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