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# Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Protect Against Cancers
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vegan_diet_cancer_0311130523/
- Published: 2013-03-11T18:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T13:52:47.000Z
- Description: Analyzing 69,120 Adventist Health Study-2 participants, researchers found vegetarian and vegan diets were associated with lower overall cancer risk, vegetarian diets with fewer gastrointestinal cancers and vegan diets with fewer female-specific cancers.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Diet, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Vegetarian and vegan diets protect against cancer, compared with nonvegetarian diets, according to a new study published by the American Association for Cancer Research. Researchers analyzed 69,120 participants as part of the Adventist Health Study-2 and found that beyond the reduced risk for overall cancer, vegetarian and vegan diets significantly reduced the risk of gastrointestinal cancers (stomach, colon, pancreas, etc.) and female-specific cancers (breast, uterine, ovarian, etc.), respectively.

Tantamango-Barlety Y, Jaceldo-Siegl K, Fan J, Fraser G. Vegetarian diets and the incidence of cancer in a low-risk population. *Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev*. 2013;22:286-294.

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