Epidemiology of cancer of the colon and rectum

✍ Scribed by Denis P. Burkitt

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 915 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197107)28:1<3::aid-cncr2820280104>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

The close relationship between bowel cancer and other non-infective diseases of the bowel, such as benign tumor, diverticular disease, and appendicitis, indicates that these conditions may have a common or related etiology. Their close association with the refined diet characteristic of economic development suggests that the removal of dietary fiber may be a causative factor. These diseases are all rare in every community examined which exists on a high residue diet, and common in every country where a low residue diet has been adopted. Dietary fiber has been shown to regulate the speed of transit, bulk, and con-~