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Cereal fiber intake may reduce risk of gastric adenocarcinomas: The EPIC-EURGAST study

  1. Mendez M.A.1,
  2. Guillem Pera1,
  3. Antonio Agudo1,
  4. H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita2,
  5. Domenico Palli3,
  6. Heiner Boeing4,
  7. Fátima Carneiro5,
  8. Franco Berrino6,
  9. Carlotta Sacerdote7,
  10. Rosario Tumino8,
  11. Salvatore Panico9,
  12. Göran Berglund10,
  13. Jonas Manjer11,
  14. Ingegerd Johansson12,
  15. Roger Stenling13,
  16. Carmen Martinez14,
  17. Miren Dorronsoro15,
  18. Aurelio Barricarte16,
  19. María J. Tormo17,
  20. José R. Quiros18,
  21. Naomi Allen19,
  22. Timothy J. Key19,
  23. Sheila Bingham20,21,
  24. Jakob Linseisen22,
  25. Rudolf Kaaks22,
  26. Kim Overvad23,
  27. Majken Jensen23,
  28. Anja Olsen24,
  29. Anne Tjønneland24,
  30. Petra H.M. Peeters25,
  31. Mattijs E. Numans25,
  32. Marga C. Ocké2,
  33. Françoise Clavel-Chapelon26,
  34. Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault26,
  35. Antonia Trichopoulou27,
  36. Eiliv Lund28,
  37. Nadia Slimani29,
  38. Mazda Jenab29,
  39. Pietro Ferrari29,
  40. Elio Riboli30,
  41. Carlos A. González1,†,*

Article first published online: 20 JUN 2007

DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22896

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International Journal of Cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volume 121, Issue 7, pages 1618–1623, 1 October 2007

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M.A., M., Pera, G., Agudo, A., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Palli, D., Boeing, H., Carneiro, F., Berrino, F., Sacerdote, C., Tumino, R., Panico, S., Berglund, G., Manjer, J., Johansson, I., Stenling, R., Martinez, C., Dorronsoro, M., Barricarte, A., Tormo, M. J., Quiros, J. R., Allen, N., Key, T. J., Bingham, S., Linseisen, J., Kaaks, R., Overvad, K., Jensen, M., Olsen, A., Tjønneland, A., Peeters, P. H.M., Numans, M. E., Ocké, M. C., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C., Trichopoulou, A., Lund, E., Slimani, N., Jenab, M., Ferrari, P., Riboli, E. and González, C. A. (2007), Cereal fiber intake may reduce risk of gastric adenocarcinomas: The EPIC-EURGAST study. Int. J. Cancer, 121: 1618–1623. doi: 10.1002/ijc.22896

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Epidemiology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (ICO-IDIBELL), Spain

  2. 2

    Center for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

  3. 3

    Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO—Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy

  4. 4

    German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbücke, Germany

  5. 5

    Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto and Medical Faculty, Porto, Portugal

  6. 6

    Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Tumori, Milan, Italy

  7. 7

    University of Torino, Torino, Italy

  8. 8

    Cancer Registry, Azienda Ospedaliera “Civile M.P. Arezzo,” Ragusa, Italy

  9. 9

    Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

  10. 10

    Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Instututet, Stockholm, Sweden

  11. 11

    Department of Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Sweden

  12. 12

    Department of Nutritional Research, University of Umeå, Sweden

  13. 13

    Department of Medical Biosciences, University of Umeå, Sweden

  14. 14

    Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain

  15. 15

    Department of Public Health of Guipuzkoa, San Sebastian, Spain

  16. 16

    Public Health Institute of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

  17. 17

    Epidemiology Department, Health Council of Murcia, Spain

  18. 18

    Public Health and Health Planning Directorate, Asturias, Spain

  19. 19

    Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  20. 20

    MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  21. 21

    MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  22. 22

    Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

  23. 23

    Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

  24. 24

    Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

  25. 25

    Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  26. 26

    INSERM, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

  27. 27

    Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

  28. 28

    Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway

  29. 29

    Nutrition and Hormones Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

  30. 30

    Faculty of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

  1. †

    Fax: +34-932-607787

*Unit of Nutrition Environment and Cancer, Department of Epidemiology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

  1. †

    Fax: +34-932-607787

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 24 JUL 2007
  2. Article first published online: 20 JUN 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 28 MAR 2007
  4. Manuscript Received: 24 JAN 2007

Funded by

  • European Commissions FP5 project. Grant Number: QLG1-CT-2001-01049
  • SANCO
  • Ligue contre le Cancer, France
  • Société 3M, France
  • Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale
  • Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, (INSERM)
  • German Cancer Aid
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • The Participating Regional Governments and Institutions of Spain
  • Cancer Research, UK
  • Medical Research Council, UK
  • The Stroke Association, UK
  • British Heart Foundation
  • Department of Health, UK
  • Food Standards Agency, UK
  • The Wellcome Trust, UK
  • Greek Ministry of Health
  • Greek Ministry of Education
  • Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC)
  • Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports
  • Dutch Ministry of Health
  • Dutch Prevention Funds
  • LK Research Funds
  • Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland)
  • World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)
  • Swedish Cancer Society
  • Swedish Scientific Council
  • Regional Government of Skane, Sweden
  • Norwegian Cancer Society
  • Spanish Ministry of Health ISCIII RTICCC. Grant Number: RD06/0020
  • CIBER en Epidemiología y SP

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