Charity News from Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2000

Questions and Answers: The Polyp Prevention Trial and the Wheat Bran Fiber Study
National Cancer Institute | Because most colorectal cancers develop in polyps, detecting and removing these growths is a way to prevent colorectal cancer. The Polyp Prevention Trial provided no evidence that adopting a low-fat, high-fiber, fruit- and vegetable-enriched ...

Trials Show No Effect of Low-Fat, High-Fiber, and High-Fruit and -Vegetable Diets on the Growth of New Colorectal Polyps in People With a History of Precancerous Polyps
National Cancer Institute | Two studies of nutritional interventions in people at high risk of colorectal cancer yielded no evidence that diet affects the growth of precancerous colorectal polyps (adenomatous polyps or adenomas) in people who have already had a polyp removed...

American Cancer Society Offers Three New Research Grant Programs
American Cancer Society | Cancer control research may be categorized as behavioral, psychosocial, epidemiologic, preclinical, clinical or health policy/health services-related. Research Scholar Grants in Psychosocial & Behavioral Research are awarded to support research ...

American Cancer Society Skeptical Over RJR's Safer Cigarette
American Cancer Society | The American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health organization, today expressed skepticism over R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's reintroduction of a "safer" cigarette, Eclipse, and called for meaningful federal oversight to ...

 

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