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Cancer and Nutrition

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Nutrition and Immunology

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Cancer, a major cause of death that in the developed world is exceeded only by cardiovascular disease, remains an important public health concern (1,2). In the United States, it is estimated that, in 1998, about 1,228,600 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed and 564,800 Americans can be expected to die of cancer (1). The most common cancers likely will continue to be cancers of the prostate, breast, lung and bronchus, and colon/rectum. For Americans, the lifetime probabilities of developing these cancers are high—prostate (1 in 5), breast (1 in 8), lung and bronchus (men 1 in 12; women, 1 in 18), and colon/rectum (1 in 17) (1).

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