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# Vegan Diets Have Lower Cancer Risk
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vegan_diets_have_lower_cancer_risk_1213120619/
- Published: 2012-12-13T19:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T13:49:51.000Z
- Description: Researchers tracked the diets of 69,120 Adventist Health Study-2 participants for more than four years and found vegans had a 16 percent lower risk of all cancers. Vegan women had a 34 percent lower risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers than nonvegetarians.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Diet, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Vegan diets are linked to a lower overall cancer rate, according to a new study published in the journal *Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention*. The diets of 69,120 participants from the Adventist Health Study-2 were tracked for more than four years. Dietary patterns were divided into five categories: nonvegetarian, semivegetarians, lacto-vegetarians (consumes dairy products and eggs), pesco-vegetarians (consumes dairy, eggs, and fish), and vegans. Vegans had a 16 percent decreased risk of all cancers, and vegan women had a 34 percent decreased risk for other specific cancers including breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers, compared with nonvegetarians.

Tantamango-Bartley Y, Jaceldo-Siegl K, Fan J, Fraser G. Vegetarian diets and the incidence of cancer in a low-risk population. *Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev*. Published ahead of print Nov. 20, 2012.

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