Esophageal Cancer

Olive Oil, Poultry, Citrus, raw Vegetables Help, Soup Butter Bad: Italian study of 304 with CA and 738 controls. RR 0.4 olive oil, 0.4 poultry, 0.3 veg, 0.7 rice or pasta, 0.4 citrus, 0.5 other fruit, but 2.2 butter, 2.1 soup. Int J Cancer 2000 Jul 15;87(2):289-94

Black Raspberries Help: Ohio State University that was published in Cancer Research, black raspberries contain compounds that may prevent throat (esophageal) cancer and keep precancerous growths from becoming malignant. The findings are still preliminary. Reuters 11/08/01

Esophageal CA up with Eggs, Meat: Case control study found RR of 1.7 red meat, 1.6 pork, 1.5 eggs, but 0.7 milk, 0.5 vegetables, 0.5 fruit. Eur J Cancer Prev 2000 Aug;9(4):257-63

Esophageal/Gastric Cancer Due to Obesity, Smoking, Alcohol, Smoked Foods, Low Fruits & Vegetables: 1143 esophagus or stomach CA pts and 695 healthy; the four main types of cancer that involve the esophagus and stomach: adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, squamous cell cancer of the esophagus, adenocarcinoma of "cardia" region of the stomach, and adenocarcinoma of other stomach areas. Being overweight accounted for 41% of esophagus adenocarcinomas, ever smoking--accounted for 40% more. Together, being overweight, ever smoking, reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus, and low fruit and vegetable consumption accounted for 79 percent of cases. Alcohol 72% of esophageal squamous cell cancers. 90& by alcohol use, a history of ever smoking, and low fruit and vegetable intake. For stomach cardia adenocarcinomas, smoking 45%, being overweight added 11%. For other stomach adenocarcinomas, increased nitrite intake, a compound found in smoked foods, 41%. The rapid rise in the rate of new cases of stomach and esophagus cancers that has occurred in Western populations appears to result from increases in the prevalence of several risk factors. J National Cancer Institute, September 17, 2003

Cancer of the  Esophagus From Heartburn: Swedes with chronic heartburn or regurgitation at least weekly were 8 times more likely get esophageal cancer. Treatment of GERD did not help. Patients with nighttime reflux had 11 times higher cancer rates. The prevalence in the US is increasing. Reflux is linked to obesity, smoking, and alcohol but not in this study of ‘94-7 data. There was only a weak link between heartburn and stomach cancer. NEJM 3/18/99.

Gastric Cancer

Sweet Potato, Poverty Associated: Risk factors of gastric cancer were living in high incidence area for a long period, low economic income, low animal protein intake, high sweet potato and inkfish intake, eating and drinking too much at one meal and mental injuring. The risk factors of severe dysplasia were low intake of protein, intake of non-fresh fish, large intake of inkfish and salted meat, a family history of gastric cancer. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 1993 Oct;14(5):295-9

Gallbladder Cancer

Fruits, Vegetables Good: Radish, Sweet Potato, Mango, Orange, Melon, Etc: odds ratio in small study of 64 cases was seen with the consumption of radish (OR 0.4; 95% CI 0.17-0.94), green chilli (OR 0.45; 95% CI 0.21-0.94) and sweet potato (OR 0.33; 95% CI 0.13-0.83) among vegetables, and mango (OR 0.4; 95% CI 0.16-0.99), orange (OR; 0.45; 95% CI 0.22-0.93), melon (OR 0.3; 95% CI 0.14-0.64) and papaya (OR 0.44; 95% 0.2-0.64) among fruits. A reduction in odds was also seen with the consumption of cruciferous vegetables, beans, onion and turnip, however the difference was not statistically significant. On the other hand, an increase in the odds was observed with consumption of capsicum (OR 2.2), beef (OR 2.58), tea (OR 1.98), red chilli (OR 1.29) and mutton (OR 1.2), however the difference was statistically not significant. In conclusion, the results of the present study show a protective effect of vegetables and fruits on gallbladder carcinogenesis, but red meat (beef and mutton) was found to be associated with increased risk of gallbladder cancer. Eur J Cancer Prev 2002 Aug;11(4):365-8

HPV virus Tied to Head and Neck Cancer: Researchers have established human papilloma virus as a cause of head and neck cancers separate from tobacco usage. They studied 61 cancer patients and found HPV virus in the cancer tissues of 37, especially the non-smokers and those in the oro-pharyx. Ernst J. M. Speel, University Hospital Maastricht, Ren Wei Chen, University of Helsinki, Int J Cancer 2003;107:394-406

HPV Oral  Infection Tied to Oral Sex: In a study of 396 HIV-negative and 190 HIV-positive adults,