Bowel cancer

Feature: Preventing bowel cancer
There is no shortage of recommendations about how to prevent bowel cancer: more fibre, less meat, vitamin supplements and even medicines feature in the long list of suggestions that have been propagated for years. We have studied the latest evidence to see how much scientific support there now is for these common recommendations.

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Bowel cancer: Can calcium prevent it?

Trials have shown that daily calcium can prevent bowel polyps. There is still no final answer on whether or not this also prevents bowel cancer. more...

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