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Overcooked beef is linked to tumor
WASHINGTON-Long the bane of chefs, well-done red meat has also drawn a yellow flag for stomach cancer.
In an NCI case-control study of 176 patients with stomach adenocarcinomas and 503 matched controls, those who ate well-done beef had a 3.5-fold higher relative risk than those whose beef was rare or medium-rare.
The study also showed that the biggest red-meat eaters-more than 19 times a week-had a twofold higher risk of stomach cancer, after adjusting for doneness, than those who ate beef fewer than eight times, says Dr. Mary H. Ward.
Beef eaten eight to 12 times weekly produced a 40% greater risk, she told the American Association for Cancer Research meeting here. Stomach cancer, declining in the U.S. for 60 years, causes 14,000 deaths a year.
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