Ultraprocessed Food and Increased Risk of Cancer: UK Study
Eating ultraprocessed food appears to be associated with an increased risk of cancer overall and with an increased risk of dying from cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, suggest researchers reporting an observational study from the United Kingdom.
The first-of-its-kind study of nearly 200,000 middle-aged adult participants in the UK Biobank database showed that for each 10 percentage point increase in the consumption of ultraprocessed food, there was a 2% increase in the overall incidence of cancer (hazard ratio [HR], 1.02), a 19% increase in ovarian cancer incidence (HR, 1.19), and increased risk of overall, ovarian, and breast cancer–related death (HR, 1.06, 1.30, and 1.16, respectively).
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