Landmark 95/100
EPIC — Meat, fish, and colorectal cancer risk
In plain English
Over half a million Europeans in the EPIC cohort were followed for their meat intake and incidence of colorectal cancer. Each additional 50 g/day of processed meat was associated with an 18% higher risk of colorectal cancer — the central data point underpinning the WHO's 2015 carcinogen classification.
Why it matters
Each 50 g/day processed meat → 18% higher colorectal cancer risk.
Informs: Cancer
Provenance
- Design
- Prospective cohort
- Sample size (n)
- 521,000
- Follow-up
- 5 years
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 4
- Funding
- Public / academic
- Funders
- European Commission, national research councils
- Institutions
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), European EPIC consortium
decades.plus score
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Landmark 95/100
Caveats
Observational; relative risk is on a small absolute baseline (~5% lifetime risk in many Western countries). Adjusts for major confounders but residual confounding is always possible.
